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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.

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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We look upon this shaken earth, and we declare our firm and fixed purpose - the building of a peace with justice in a world where moral law prevails.
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When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose.
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We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.
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Work should be for all of us a word as honorable and appealing as patriotism.
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The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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Against the dark background of the atomic bomb, the United States does not wish merely to present strength, but also the desire and the hope for peace.
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Since the advent of nuclear weapons, it seems clear that there is no longer any alternative to peace, if there is to be a happy and well world.
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Disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.
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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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This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.
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I also ache at that thought your majesty... But if they do not offer the sacrifice in blood now, we will all pay dearly with added gallons later. So if some most die it is in a worthy cause.
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Peace signifies more than the stilling of guns, easing the sorrow of war. More than escape from death, it is a way of life. More than a haven for the weary, it is a hope for the brave.
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