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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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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One minute I'm exactly what Churchill described me the most powerful man in history. Now the Order's given, hell I'm just audience front row center to the shoe. But a Corporal on Juno, a Private on Utah there the ones who will affect the outcome not me. It's up to them now.
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The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is the leadership of men.
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Arms alone can give the world no permanent peace, no confident security. Arms are solely for defense - to protect from violent assault what we already have. They are only a costly insurance. They cannot add to human progress.
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Remember that it is not by a tyrant's words, but only by his deeds that we can know him.
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I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general.... They win battles, and they make me lucky.
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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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I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.
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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. And now, as in no other age, we seek it 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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Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
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The proudest thing I can claim is that I am from Abilene.
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I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory! Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
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There are no victories at discount prices.
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Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
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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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The world no longer has a choice between force and law if civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of law.
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Only a fool would try to deprive working men and working women of their right to join the union of their choice.
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