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No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.
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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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength - and strength alone.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
We believe in the principle that governments are properly established only when it is with the consent of the governed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men. Though you follow the trade of the warrior, you do so in the spirit of Washington - not of Genghis Khan. For Americans, only threat to our way of life justifies resort to conflict.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
I believe as long as we allow conditions to exist that make for second-class citizens, we are making of ourselves less than first-class citizens.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
The United States would seek more than the mere reduction or elimination of atomic materials for military purposes. It is not enough to take this weapon out of the hands of the soldiers. It must be put into the hands of those who will know how to strip its military casing and adapt it to the arts of peace.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.
Dwight D. Eisenhower