Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.
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We –finally-look upon change, the every-unfolding future, with confidence rather than doubt, hope rather than fear. We, as a people, were born of revolution. And we have lived by change-always a frontier people, exploring-if not new wilderness-then new science and new knowledge.
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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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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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In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.
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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 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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Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.
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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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Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
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No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.
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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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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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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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We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
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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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The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
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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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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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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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Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.