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I will not get into a pissing contest with that skunk [Joseph McCarthy].

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Age: 78 †
Born: 1890
Born: October 14
Died: 1969
Died: March 28
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I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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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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America is best described by one word, freedom.
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For every obstacle there is a solution. Persistence is the key. The greatest mistake is giving up!
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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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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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I firmly believe that the future of civilization is absolutely dependent upon finding some way of resolving international differences without resorting to war.
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A good teacher is one who can understand those who are not very good at explaining, and explain to those who are not very good at understanding.
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Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
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