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I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Age: 78 †
Born: 1890
Born: October 14
Died: 1969
Died: March 28
34Th U.S. President
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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May the light of freedom, coming to all darkened lands, flame brightly - until at last the darkness is no more.
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And now, as in no other age, we seek it [peace] because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.
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In the service, when a man gives you his word, his word is binding. In politics, you never know.
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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.
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We do not keep security establishments merely to defend property or territory or rights abroad or at sea. We keep the security forces to defend a way of life.
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