Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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I do have one instruction for you, General. Do something about that damned football team.
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We were depending on considerable assistance from the insurrectionists in France. Throughout France the Free French had been of inestimable value in the campaign. ... Without their great assistance the liberation of France and the defeat of the enemy in Western Europe would have consumed a much longer time and meant greater losses to ourselves.
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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.
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Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.
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I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
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Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.
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Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
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I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.
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We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.
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The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength - and strength alone.
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What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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The proudest human that walks the earth is a free American citizen.
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The sergeant is the Army.
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The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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The Founders conceived government as the servant, not the master of the individual.
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Un-American activity cannot be prevented or routed out by employing un-American methods; to preserve freedom we must use the tools that freedom provides.
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A foundation of our American way of life is our national respect for law.