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I come from the very heart of 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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Work should be for all of us a word as honorable and appealing as patriotism.
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The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.
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The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty... Practical progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope.
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I was against it on two counts. First, the Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing. Second, I hated to see our country be the first to use such a weapon.
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Your country, my country - each is a better and stronger and more influential nation because each can rely upon every resource of the other in days of crisis. Beyond this, each can work and grow and prosper with the other through years of quiet peace.
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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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Let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that their efforts shall not have been in vain.
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I believe that without free enterprise there can be no democracy.
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The necessary and wise subordination of the military to civil power must be sustained.
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Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
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War is a contest, and you finally get to a point where you are talking merely about race suicide, and nothing else.
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It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.
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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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