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As Nuclear And Other Technological Achievements Continue To Mount, The Normal Life Span Will Continue To Climb. The Hourly Productivity Of The Worker Will Increase.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
As Nuclear And Other Technological Achievements Continue To Mount, The Normal Life Span Will Continue To Climb. The Hourly Productivity Of The Worker Will Increase.
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Under The Clouds Of War, It Is Humanity Hanging On A Cross Of Iron.
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War
Clouds
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The History Of Free Men Is Never Really Written By Chance But By Choice; Their Choice!
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History
The Potential For The Disastrous Rise Of Misplaced Power Exists And Will Persist.
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Nwo
Acquisition
Farming Looks Mighty Easy When Your Plow Is A Pencil And You're A Thousand Miles From The Corn Field.
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Before A Battle, Planning Is Everything. Once The Fighting Has Begun, It's Worthless
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Planning
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 Have Spent My Life In The Study Of Military Strength As A Deterrent To War, And In The Character Of Military Armaments Necessary To Win A War. The Study Of The First Of These Questions Is Still Profitable, But We Are Rapidly Getting To The Point That No War Can Be Won.
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We Must Achieve Both Security And Solvency. In Fact, The Foundation Of Military Strength Is Economic Strength.
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And The Other Was This: The Doctor Did Want To Take Off My Leg Because He Thought It Was Necessary. But You Must Remember Boys In Those Days Were Raised For Two Things: Work, And Then They Made Their Play; And If You Couldn't Play Baseball And Box And Play Football, Why, Your Life Was Ended. That Was In Our Boyish Minds.
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Preparing For Battle, Plans Were Essential. But Once The Battle Was Joined, Plans Were Useless.
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Essentials
Useless
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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Why Are We Proud? We Are Proud, First Of All, Because From The Beginning Of This Nation, A Man Can Walk Upright, No Matter Who He Is, Or Who She Is. He Can Walk Upright And Meet His Friend - Or His Enemy; And He Does Not Fear That Because That Enemy May Be In A Position Of Great Power That He Can Be Suddenly Thrown In Jail To Rot There Without Charges And With No Recourse To Justice. We Have The Habeas Corpus Act, And We Respect It.
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We Are Going To Have Peace Even If We Have To Fight For It.
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The Older I Get The More Wisdom I Find In The Ancient Rule Of Taking First Things First. A Process Which Often Reduces The Most Complex Human Problem To A Manageable Proportion.
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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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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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The United States Pledges Before You-and Therefore Before The World-its Determination To Help Solve The Fearful Atomic Dilemma-to Devote Its Entire Heart And Mind To Find The Way By Which The Miraculous Inventiveness Of Man Shall Not Be Dedicated To His Death, But Consecrated To His Life.
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Freedom Bestows On Us The Priceless Gift Of Opportunity - If We Neglect Our Opportunities We Shall Certainly Lose Our Freedom.
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This Operation Is Not Being Planned With Any Alternatives. This Operation Is Planned As A Victory, And That's The Way It's Going To Be. We're Going Down There, And We're Throwing Everything We Have Into It, And We're Going To Make It A Success.
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Kinship Among Nations Is Not Determined In Such Measurements As Proximity Of Size And Age. Rather We Should Turn To Those Inner Things - Call Them What You Will - I Mean Those Intangibles That Are The Real Treasures Free Men Possess.
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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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Children
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Take Your Job Seriously, But Not Yourself
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Ankles Are Nearly Always Neat And Good-looking, But Knees Are Nearly Always Not.
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Knees
Looking Good
Despite The Present, Temporary Interests That Israel Has In Common With France And Britain, You Ought Not To Forget That The Strength Of Israel And Her Future Are Bound Up With The United States.
Israel
Presidential
France
But I Think A Life Of Raising Prize Cattle, Going Shooting Two Or Three Times A Year, Fishing In The Summer, And Interspersing The Whole Thing With Some Golf And Bridge - And Whenever I Felt Like Talking Or Writing, Doing It With Abandon And With No Sense Of Responsibility Whatsoever - Maybe Such A Life Wouldn't Be So Bad.
Summer
Sports
Responsibility
Un-american Activity Cannot Be Prevented Or Routed Out By Employing Un-american Methods; To Preserve Freedom We Must Use The Tools That Freedom Provides.
Tools
Use
Method
We Face A Hostile Ideology Global In Scope, Atheistic In Character, Ruthless In Purpose And Insidious In Method.
Character
Purpose
Faces
Military Power Serves The Cause Of Security By Making Prohibitive The Cost Of Any Aggressive Attack. It Serves The Cause Of Peace By Holding Up A Shield Behind Which The Patient Constructive Work Of Peace Can Go On.
Peace
Military
Cost
The Future Of This Republic Is In The Hands Of The American Voter.
Hands
Voting
American Voters
I Have No Use For Those- Regardless Of Their Political Party- Who Hold Some Foolish Dream Of Spinning The Clock Back To Days When Unorganized Labor Was A Huddled, Almost Helpless Mass.
Dream
Party
Political
We Merely Want To Live In Peace With All The World.
Spiritual
World
Want
So - Our Readiness To Meet And Defeat This Kind Of Possible Attack Is Forced Upon Us, Both As A Potent Preventive Of Actual War And To Insure Survival In Event Of Attack. This Alertness To Danger Has To Be Translated Into Specific Policies And Activities In The Several Parts Of The World Where Our Rights - Our Way Of Life - Can Be Seriously Damaged. Work Of This Kind Occupies My Days And Nights.
Peace
War
Night
Politics Is A Profession; A Serious, Complicated And, In Its True Sense, A Noble One.
Political
Politics
Serious
The Teaching Of Their Ancient Belief Is Filled With Truth For The Present Day. Its Profound Sense Of Justice, Nation To Nation, Man To Man, Is An Essential Part Of Every Religious And Social Order. The Health Of Our Society Depends Upon A Deep And Abiding Respect For The Basic Commandments Of The God Of Israel.
Religious
Teaching
Men
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.
Peace
Military
War
It Is Only Common Sense To Recognize That The Great Bulk Of Americans, Whether Republican Or Democrat, Face Many Common Problems And Agree On A Number Of Basic Objectives.
Numbers
Common Sense
Faces
We Are Particularly Thankful To You For Your Part In The Movement To Have The Words Under God Added To Our Pledge Of Allegiance. These Words Will Remind Americans That Despite Our Great Physical Strength We Must Remain Humble. They Will Help Us Keep Constantly In Our Minds And Hearts The Spiritual And Moral Principles Which Alone Give Dignity To Man.
Spiritual
Heart
Humble
My Ambition In The Army Was To Make Everybody I Worked For Regretful When I Was Ordered To Other Duty.
Ambition
Army
Duty
Memory Should Be The Starting Point Of The Present.
Memories
Starting
Should
We Are Not Saints. We Know We Make Mistakes, But At Least Our Heart Is With The Right Cause.
Mistake
Heart
Causes
Only Our Individual Faith In Freedom Can Keep Us Free.
Freedom
Military
4th Of July
People Talk About The Middle Of The Road As Though It Were Unacceptable. Actually, All Human Problems, Excepting Morals, Come Into The Gray Areas. Things Are Not All Black And White. There Have To Be Compromises. The Middle Of The Road Is All Of The Usable Surface. The Extremes, Right And Left, Are In The Gutters.
Black And White
People
Gutters
Our Arms Must Be Mighty ... Ready For Instant Action, So That No Potential Aggressor May Be Tempted To Risk His Own Destruction
Risk
May
Arms
Without God There Could Be No American Form Of Government, Nor An American Way Of Life. Recognition Of The Supreme Being Is The First, The Most Basic, Expression Of Americanism. Thus, The Founding Fathers Of America Saw It, And Thus With God's Help, It Will Continue To Be.
Bible
God
Religious
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.
Powerful
Men
Order
And The Next Thing Is That Every War Is Going To Astonish You In The Way It Occurred, And In The Way It Is Carried Out.
War
Defense
Way
There Is A Kind Of Dictatorship That Can Come About Through A Creeping Paralysis Of Thought, Readiness To Accept Paternalistic Measures By Government, And Along With Those Measures Comes A Surrender Of Our Own Responsibilities And Therefore A Surrender Of Our Own Thought Over Our Own Lives And Our Own Right To Exercise The Vote. The Free System Gives The Right To Every Citizen To Do Something For Himself. Because He Has The Right, The Opportunity Is Always There.
Life
Responsibility
Exercise
Peace Is More The Product Of Our Day-to-day Living Than Of A Spectacular Program, Intermittently Executed.
Program
Spectacular
Day To Day Living
I Believe It Is A Tradition In Baseball That When A Pitcher Has A No-hitter Going, No One Reminds Him Of It.
Baseball
Believe
Tradition
The Essence Of War Is Fire, Famine, And Pestilence. They Contribute To Its Outbreak; They Are Among Its Weapons; They Become Its Consequences.
War
Fire
Essence
... We Have Been Warned By The Power Of Modern Weapons, That Peace May Be The Only Climate Possible For Human Life Itself ... There Must Be Law, Steadily Invoked And Respected By All Nations, For Without Law, The World Promises Only Such Meager Justice As The Pity Of The Strong Upon The Weak.
Strong
Law
Justice
There's No Tragedy In Life Like The Death Of A Child. Things Never Get Back To The Way They Were.
Children
Tragedy
Politics
The Problem Is Not Merely Man Against Man Or Nation Against Nation. It Is Man Against War.
War
Men
Problem
We Are So Proud Of Our Guarantees Of Freedom In Thought And Speech And Worship, That, Unconsciously, We Are Guilty Of One Of The Greatest Errors That Ignorance Can Make - We Assume Our Standard Of Values Is Shared By All Other Humans In The World.
Ignorance
Errors
Guarantees
From Behind The Iron Curtain, There Are Signs That Tyranny Is In Trouble And Reminders That Its Structure Is As Brittle As Its Surface Is Hard.
Military
Iron
Trouble
But All History Has Taught Us The Grim Lesson That No Nation Has Ever Been Successful In Avoiding The Terrors Of War By Refusing To Defend Its Rights - By Attempting To Placate Aggression.
War
Successful
Rights
I Have One Yardstick By Which I Test Every Major Problem - And That Yardstick Is: Is It Good For America?
Military
America
Tests
There Is One Thing About Being President -- Nobody Can Tell You When To Sit Down.
President
One Thing
From This Day Forward, The Millions Of Our School Children Will Daily Proclaim In Every City And Town, Every Village And Rural Schoolhouse, The Dedication Of Our Nation And Our People To The Almighty.
Children
School
Dedication
Statesmanship Is Developed In The Hard Knocks Of General Experience, Private And Public.
Hard
Statesmanship
I Come From The Very Heart Of America.
Heart
America
We Have Won An Armistice On A Single Battlefield, Not Peace In Our World. We May Not Now Relax Our Guard Nor Cease Our Quest.
War
Our World
Relax
Together We Must Learn How To Compose Differences, Not With Arms, But With Intellect And Decent Purpose.
Peace
War
Farewell
We Seek Peace, Knowing That Peace Is The Climate Of Freedom. And Now, As In No Other Age, We Seek It Because We Have Been Warned, By The Power Of Modern Weapons, That Peace May Be The Only Climate Possible For Human Life Itself.
Peace
Freedom
War
I Could Have Spoken From Rhode Island Where I Have Been Staying ... But I Felt That, In Speaking From The House Of Lincoln, Of Jackson, And Of Wilson, My Words Would Better Convey Both The Sadness I Feel In The Action I Was Compelled Today To Make And The Firmness With Which I Intend To Pursue This Course Until The Orders Of The Federal Court At Little Rock Can Be Executed Without Unlawful Interference." (on Sending Troops To Enforce Integration In Little Rock Ar High School)
Education
Time
Teaching
Since The Advent Of Nuclear Weapons, It Seems Clear That There Is No Longer Any Alternative To Peace, If There Is To Be A Happy And Well World.
Peace
Nuclear
Alternatives
I’m Going To Pass A Law That No One Can Ask Me My Golf Score.
Golf
Law
Score
I Like To Believe That People In The Long Run Are Going To Do More To Promote Peace Than Our Governments. Indeed, I Think That People Want Peace So Much That One Of These Days Governments Had Better Get Out Of The Way And Let Them Have It.
Running
Peace
Believe
I Have Found Out In Later Years That We Were Very Poor, But The Glory Of America Is That We Didn't Know It Then.
Years
America
Poverty
Freedom Has Its Life In The Hearts, The Actions, The Spirit Of Men And So It Must Be Daily Earned And Refreshed - Else Like A Flower Cut From Its Life-giving Roots, It Will Wither And Die.
Freedom
4th Of July
Flower
Few Women, I Fear, Have Had Such Reason As I Have To Think The Long Sad Years Of Youth Were Worth Living For The Sake Of Middle Age.
Time
Fear
Women
Every Battle Is Going To Surprise You. No Plan Ever Survives Contact With The Enemy.
Enemy
Battle
Surprise
These Are Not Bad People. All They Are Concerned About Is To See That Their Sweet Little Girls Are Not Required To Sit In School Alongside Some Big Overgrown Negroes.
Girl
Sweet
Stupid
By Mutual Respect, Understanding And With Good Will We Can Find Acceptable Solutions To Any Problems Which Exist Or May Arise Between Us.
Presidential
Understanding
May
Understanding Quotes: Their Essence and Application

Quotes, or quotations, are powerful tools in communication, encapsulating ideas, emotions, and wisdom in concise expressions. They serve various purposes across different contexts, from academic writing to everyday conversation.

1. Defining Quotes

A quote is a repetition of someone else's statement or thoughts. It can be a direct replication of words spoken or written by another individual, often used to support arguments, provide evidence, or convey profound insights.


2. The Importance of Quotes

2.1. Enhancing Credibility

Incorporating quotes from authoritative sources can bolster the credibility of your work. By referencing experts or primary sources, you demonstrate thorough research and a solid foundation for your arguments.


2.2. Providing Evidence

Quotes serve as concrete evidence to support claims. In academic and professional writing, they validate points made, offering readers a basis to trust the information presented.


2.3. Conveying Emotions and Perspectives

Quotes can encapsulate emotions and perspectives succinctly. They allow writers to express complex feelings or viewpoints through the words of others, often more eloquently than paraphrasing.


3. Types of Quotes

3.1. Direct Quotes

Direct quotes involve copying the exact words from a source, enclosed in quotation marks. They are used when the original wording is significant or particularly well-expressed.


3.2. Indirect Quotes (Paraphrasing)

Indirect quotes restate the original message in your own words. While not enclosed in quotation marks, they still require proper attribution to the original source.


3.3. Block Quotes

Block quotes are lengthy direct quotations, formatted as a separate block of text. They are typically used for quotes exceeding a certain length, varying by citation style. For instance, in APA style, quotes longer than 40 words are formatted as block quotes.



4. Proper Usage of Quotes


4.1. Contextual Relevance

Ensure that the quote you choose is relevant to the topic and adds value to your content. Avoid inserting quotes solely for decorative purposes.


4.2. Integration into Your Writing

Seamlessly integrate quotes into your writing. Introduce them appropriately and follow up with analysis or commentary to connect them to your main points.


4.3. Attribution and Citation

Always attribute quotes to their original authors and provide proper citations according to the required style guide (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.).


5. Common Mistakes to Avoid


5.1. Overusing Quotes

Relying too heavily on quotes can overshadow your voice. Use them sparingly to support your arguments, not replace them.


5.2. Lack of Analysis

Presenting a quote without analysis or explanation can leave readers questioning its relevance. Always follow up with your interpretation or discussion.


5.3. Misquoting or Taking Out of Context

Ensure that quotes are accurate and not taken out of context, as this can mislead readers and undermine your credibility.



6. Quotes in Different Contexts


6.1. Academic Writing

In academic writing, quotes are used to support arguments, provide evidence, and engage with existing literature. Proper citation is crucial to avoid plagiarism.


6.2. Journalism

Journalists use quotes to provide firsthand accounts, add authenticity, and present multiple perspectives within a story.


6.3. Literature and Creative Writing

In literature, quotes can be used to convey character voices, themes, and stylistic elements. They enrich narratives and provide depth to storytelling.



7. Punctuation and Formatting


Understanding the correct punctuation and formatting of quotes is essential:


Quotation Marks: Always enclose direct quotes within quotation marks.


Punctuation Placement: In American English, periods and commas are placed inside quotation marks, while colons and semicolons are placed outside.


Block Quotes: For longer quotes, format them as block quotes without quotation marks, and indent the entire block.



8. Ethical Considerations


Ethical use of quotes involves accurate representation, proper attribution, and respect for intellectual property. Misuse can lead to plagiarism, which carries serious academic and professional consequences.

9. Tools for Managing Quotes


Utilize tools like citation generators and plagiarism checkers to manage quotes effectively. These tools help ensure proper formatting and originality in your writing.



Conclusion


Quotes are invaluable in enriching content, providing evidence, and conveying complex ideas succinctly. When used appropriately, they enhance the quality and credibility of your writing. Always ensure relevance, proper integration, and ethical usage to maximize their impact.


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