Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
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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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Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.
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Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.
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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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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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In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.
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We are-proudly-a people with no sense of class or caste. We judge no man by his name or inheritance, but by what he does-and for what he stands.
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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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Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.
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I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
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The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
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We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
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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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When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.
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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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This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.
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The free individual has been justified as his own master; the state as his servant.
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No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.
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A nation's hope of lasting peace cannot be firmly based upon any race in armaments but rather upon just relations and honest understanding with all other nations.
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The gravity of the time is such that every new avenue of peace, no matter how dimly discernible, should be explored.
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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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Let us never forget that the deep things that are American are the soul and the spirit. The Statue of Liberty is not tired, and not because it is made of bronze. It is because no matter what happens, here the individual is dignified because he is created in the image of his God. Let us not forget it.
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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.