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For a just and lasting peace, here is my solemn pledge to you: by dedication and patience we will continue, as long as I remain your President, to work for this simple - this single - this exclusive goal.

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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Leadership is the ability to get a person to do what you want him to do, when you want it done, in a way you want it done, because he wants to do it.
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I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.
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My constant prayer, these days, as I start my backswing is, 'Oh, please let me swing slowly.' The trouble is that sometimes I wonder whether I swing at all whether I am not strictly a chopper.
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Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.
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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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The more baseball the better. It is a healthful sport and develops team play and initiative, plus an independent attitude.
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If progress is to be steady we must have long term guides extending far ahead.
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The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
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God, I hate the Germans.
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I come from the very heart of America.
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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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It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.
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Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.
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I believe that without free enterprise there can be no democracy.
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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.
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A constitutional amendment for congressional term limits could never achieve the blessing of Congress it could be initiated only by the states.
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The sergeant is the Army.
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The gravity of the time is such that every new avenue of peace, no matter how dimly discernible, should be explored.
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