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No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.
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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No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won't make you cry.
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Preparing for battle, plans were essential. But once the battle was joined, plans were useless.
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Politics is a profession a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
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May we grow in strength — without pride in self. May we, in our dealings with all peoples of the earth, ever speak truth and serve justice. And so shall America — in the sight of all men of good will — prove true to the honorable purposes that bind and rule us as a people in all this time of trial through which we pass.
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You did not tell me what you are doing athletically just now but I do hope that if your arm comes along next spring you can get it in good shape to try out for the pitching spot on the varsity. However, if you don't make it then I suggest you take up golf which after all is the best game of all of them.
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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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Mob rule can not be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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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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