Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?
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Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
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I believe the only way to protect my own rights is to protect the rights of others.
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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
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I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.
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There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.
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To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.
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Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.
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Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
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I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.
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All the historic precedents, the soaring graphs, the staggering statistics-these measure size more than substance. And the largeness and greatness of our nation would be almost a mockery-without a matching greatness of heart and largeness of vision as we look out upon the world.
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Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
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I know that the American people share my deep belief that if a danger exists in the world, it is a danger shared by all; and equally, that if hope exists in the mind of one nation, that hope should be shared by all.
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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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I share the sense of shock and dismay that the entire nation must feel at the despicable act that took the life of the nation's president. On the personal side, Mrs. Eisenhower and I share the grief that Mrs. Kennedy must now feel. We send to her our prayerful thoughts and sympathetic sentiments in this hour.
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These proposals spring, without ulterior motive or political passion, from our calm conviction that the hunger for peace is in the hearts of all people - those of Russia and of China no less than of our own country. They conform to our firm faith that God created man to enjoy, not destroy, the fruits of the earth and of their own toil.
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There is no victory at bargain basement prices.
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The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament.
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If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
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Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.
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This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.
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The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
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The government in Washington belongs to you.