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I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

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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Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
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They [the founders] proclaimed to all the world the revolutionary doctrine of the divine rights of the common man. That doctrine has ever since been the heart of the American faith.
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
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Well, it's hard for a mere man to believe that woman doesn't have equal rights.
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Censorship, in my opinion, is a stupid and shallow way of approaching the solution to any problem.
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You will enter the continent of Europe and, in conjunction with the other United Nations, undertake operations aimed at the heart of Germany and the destruction of her armed forces.
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In opposing Communism, we are defeating ourselves if we use methods that do not conform to the American sense of justice.
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