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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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Peace signifies more than the stilling of guns, easing the sorrow of war. More than escape from death, it is a way of life. More than a haven for the weary, it is a hope for the brave.
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[T]he rule of law does more than ensure freedom from high-handed action by rulers. It ensures justice between man and man however humble the one and however powerful the other. A man with five dollars in the bank can call to account the corporation with five billion dollars in assets-and the two will be heard as equals before the law.
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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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For all that we cherish and justly desire - for ourselves or for our children - the securing of peace is the first requisite.
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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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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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Science seems ready to confer upon us, as its final gift, the power to erase human life from this planet.
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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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Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.
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There has been a vigorous acceleration of health, resource and education programs designed to advance the role of the American Indian in our society. Last Fall, for example, 91 percent of the Indian children between the ages of 6 and 18 on reservations were enrolled in school. This is a rise of 12 percent since 1953.
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Life is certainly only worthwhile as it represents struggle for worthy causes. There is no struggle in perfect security. I am quite certain that the human being could not continue to exist if he or she had perfect security.
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If I didn't have air supremacy, I wouldn't be here.
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Of course Overlord did not fail. How could it? With some many fine young men and women from all corners of the earth all determined to do their best to free a world gone half mad.
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People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.
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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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There can be no true disarmament without peace, and there can be no real peace without very material disarmament.
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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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The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.
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