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Remember that it is not by a tyrant's words, but only by his deeds that we can know him.
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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I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.
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There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
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I’m going to pass a law that no one can ask me my golf score.
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Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.
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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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By mutual respect, understanding and with good will we can find acceptable solutions to any problems which exist or may arise between us.
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They [the founders] proclaimed to all the world the revolutionary doctrine of the divine rights of the common man. That doctrine has ever since been the heart of the American faith.
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If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
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Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power.
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I have just realized that it is due to you, and to Mr. James Thomas and his staff of the Army Navy Country Club that the putting green here on the White House lawn is already in such excellent condition. I assure you that I get a great deal of pleasure and relaxation out of using the green in an occasional late afternoon hour . . .
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Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
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The stop-watch of history is running. The race is on . . .
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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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If I didn't have air supremacy, I wouldn't be here.
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Beware the influence of the military-industrial complex.
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You can decide to invade Russia at dinner, pick Waterloo for battle on a whim. It's the details, the small stuff. Its easy to gamble a million lives. Whats hard is to see how that can hurt one single person. And if you cant keep that straight, hell, you'll lose your humanity.
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The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.
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The only way to win World War III is to prevent it.
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When shallow critics denounce the profit motive inherent in our system of private enterprise, they ignore the fact that it is an economic support of every human right we possess and without it, all rights would disappear.
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We must be strong at home if we are going to be strong abroad. We understand that. So we want to be strong at home in our morale or in our spirit, we want to be strong intellectually, in our education, in our economy and, where necessary, militarily.
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