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We do not keep security establishments merely to defend property or territory or rights abroad or at sea. We keep the security forces to defend a way of life.
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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Firmness in support of fundamentals, with flexibility in tactics and methods, is the key to any hope of progress in negotiation.
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Our American heritage is threatened as much by our own indifference as it is by the most unscrupulous office or by the most powerful foreign threat. The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.
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Against the dark background of the atomic bomb, the United States does not wish merely to present strength, but also the desire and the hope for peace.
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If we make ourselves worthy of America's ideals, if we do not forget that our nation was founded on the premise that all men are creatures of God's making, the world will come to know that it is free men who carry forward the true promise of human progress and dignity.
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In the service, when a man gives you his word, his word is binding. In politics, you never know.
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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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You have a row of dominoes set up you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.
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The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength - and strength alone.
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