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Freedom bestows on us the priceless gift of opportunity - if we neglect our opportunities we shall certainly lose our freedom.

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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Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
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We look upon this shaken earth, and we declare our firm and fixed purpose - the building of a peace with justice in a world where moral law prevails.
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We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.
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[Not achieving a nuclear test ban] would have to be classed as the greatest disappointment of any administration of any decade, of any time and of any party.
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There can be no peace without 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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The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
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I'm for each and against none.
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First, separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. If ever again we should be involved in war, we will fight it in all elements, with all services, as one single concentrated effort.
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Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
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The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.
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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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Only by trusting in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.
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The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty... Practical progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope.
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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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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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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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I know something about that war, and I never want to see that history repeated. But, my fellow Americans, it certainly can be repeated if the peace-loving democratic nations again fearfully practice a policy of standing idly by while big aggressors use armed force to conquer the small and weak.
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You realise Group Captain that this might be the most important weather forecast in history?
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In all those things which deal with people, be liberal, be human. In all those things which deal with the people's money or their economy or their form of government, be conservative.
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