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Change Is The Law Of Life And Of Relations Between Nations. When Two Great Peoples Such As Ours, Energetic And Optimistic, Live Side By Side In All The Diversity That Freedom Offers, Change Is Rapid And Brings In Its Wake Problems, Sometimes Frictions.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Change Is The Law

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Change Is The Law Of Life And Of Relations Between Nations. When Two Great Peoples Such As Ours, Energetic And Optimistic, Live Side By Side In All The Diversity That Freedom Offers, Change Is Rapid And Brings In Its Wake Problems, Sometimes Frictions.
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Doubt
Warfare
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Discounts
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Presidential
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Library
Censorship
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Economic
Form
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Men
Israel
Europe
The True Purpose Of Education Is To Prepare Young Men And Women For Effective Citizenship In A Free Form Of Government.
Men
Purpose
Citizenship
The Righteousness Of Men Should Be Treated With The Same Respect That One Would Accord To A Rattlesnake. Things Are More Like They Are Now Than They Ever Were Before.
Men
Should
Rattlesnakes
I Call Upon Those Who Love Freedom To Stand With Us Now. Together We Shall Achieve Victory.
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Together
Achieve
Sweet Praise Is Like Perfume. It Is Fine If You Don't Swallow It.
Sweet
Praise
Perfume
If A Political Party Does Not Have Its Foundation In The Determination To Advance A Cause That Is Right And That Is Moral, Then It Is Not A Political Party; It Is Merely A Conspiracy To Seize Power.
Determination
Party
Political
If A Man's Associates Find Him Guilty Of Being Phony, If They Find That He Lacks Forthright Integrity, He Will Fail. His Teachings And Actions Must Square With Each Other. The First Great Need, Therefore, Is Integrity And High Purpose.
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Teaching
Men
We Face A Hostile Ideology Global In Scope, Atheistic In Character, Ruthless In Purpose And Insidious In Method.
Character
Purpose
Faces
Disarmament, With Mutual Honor And Confidence, Is A Continuing Imperative.
Peace
Military
War
You Did Not Tell Me What You Are Doing Athletically Just Now But I Do Hope That If Your Arm Comes Along Next Spring You Can Get It In Good Shape To Try Out For The Pitching Spot On The Varsity. However, If You Don't Make It Then I Suggest You Take Up Golf Which After All Is The Best Game Of All Of Them.
Sports
Spring
Golf
If You Are Waging Peace, You Can't Be Too Particular Sometimes About The Special Attitudes That Different Countries Take. We Were A Young Country Once, And Our Whole Policy For The First 150 Years Was, We Were Neutral.
Country
Attitude
Years
"in The Goodness Of Time, All Peoples Will Come To Live Together In A Peace Guaranteed By The Binding Force Of Mutual Respect And Love."
Respect
Peace
Tolerance
We The People, Elect Leaders Not To Rule But To Serve
People
Leader
Morale - The Will To Win, The Fighting Heart - Are The Honored Hallmarks Of The Football Coach And Player. Likewise, They Are Characteristic Of The Enterprising Executive, The Successful Troop Leader, The Established Artist And The Dedicated Teacher And Scientist.
Sports
Football
Teacher
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Mean
Sunshine
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Thinking
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Optimistic
Capacity
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War
Successful
Morale
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Wheat
Milk
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Country
Safety
Purpose
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Peace
Simple
Dedication
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Political
Politics
Serious
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Powerful
Gun
Ideas
As Our Heart Summons Our Strength, Our Wisdom Must Direct It.
Strength
Heart
Direct
Through Knowledge And Understanding We Will Drive From The Temple Of Freedom All Who Seek To Establish Over Us Thought Control - Whether They Be Agents Of A Foreign Power Or Demagogues Thirsty For Personal Power And Public Notice.
Understanding
Agents
Temples
There Are Three Stages Of Life: Youth, Maturity, And 'my, You're Looking Good!'
Maturity
Three
Youth
In Vast Stretches Of The Earth, Men Awoke Today In Hunger. They Will Spend The Day In Unceasing Toil. And As The Sun Goes Down They Will Still Know Hunger. They Will See Suffering In The Eyes Of Their Children. Many Despair That Their Labor Will Ever Decently Shelter Their Families Or Protect Them Against Disease. So Long As This Is So, Peace And Freedom Will Be In Danger Throughout Our World. For Wherever Free Men Lose Hope Of Progress, Liberty Will Be Weakened And The Seeds Of Conflict Will Be Sown.
Peace
Children
Eye
We Are Not Saints. We Know We Make Mistakes, But At Least Our Heart Is With The Right Cause.
Mistake
Heart
Causes
Because, Therefore, We Are Defending A Way Of Life, We Must Be Respectful Of That Way Of Life As We Proceed To The Solution Of Our Problem. We Must Not Violate Its Principles And Its Precepts, And We Must Not Destroy From Within What We Are Trying To Defend From Without.
War
Trying
Principles
America's Leadership And Prestige Depend, Not Merely Upon Our Unmatched Material Progress, Riches And Military Strength, But On How We Use Our Power In The Interests Of World Peace And Human Betterment.
Strength
Military
America
We ... Must Avoid The Impulse To Live Only For Today, Plundering For Our Own Ease And Convenience The Precious Resources Of Tomorrow.
Peace
Ease
Today
War Is Mankind's Most Tragic And Stupid Folly; To Seek Or Advise Its Deliberate Provocation Is A Black Crime Against All Men.
War
Stupid
Men
Only Our Individual Faith In Freedom Can Keep Us Free.
Freedom
Military
4th Of July
The People Of The World Genuinely Want Peace. Some Day The Leaders Of The World Are Going To Have To Give In And Give, It To Them.
People
Giving
Leader
You Will Enter The Continent Of Europe And, In Conjunction With The Other United Nations, Undertake Operations Aimed At The Heart Of Germany And The Destruction Of Her Armed Forces.
Heart
Europe
Germany
Our Economy Is The Result Of Millions Of Decisions We All Make Every Day About Producing, Earning, Saving, Investing, And Spending.
Decision
Investing
Saving
In Preparing For Battle I Have Always Found That Plans Are Useless, But Planning Is Indispensable.
Success
Business
Military
Give Us, We Pray, The Power To Discern Clearly Right From Wrong, And Allow All Our Words And Actions To Be Governed Thereby, And By The Laws Of This Land. Especially We Pray That Our Concern Shall Be For All The People Regardless Of Station, Race, Or Calling.
Race
Law
Land
Without God, There Would Be No American Form Of Government, Nor An American Way Of Life.
Government
Would Be
Way
I Come From The Very Heart Of America.
Heart
America
The Only Things Worth Counting On Are People You Can Count On.
People
Counting
The System Is Not Intended As A Substitute For Private Savings, Pension Plans, And Insurance Protection. It Is, Rather, Intended As The Foundation Upon Which These Other Forms Of Protection Can Be Soundly Built. Thus, The Individual's Own Work, His Planning And His Thrift Will Bring Him A Higher Standard Of Living Upon His Retirement, Or His Family A Higher Standard Of Living In The Event Of His Death, Than Would Otherwise Be The Case. Hence The System Both Encourages Thrift And Self-reliance, And Helps To Prevent Destitution In Our National Life.
Retirement
Pension Plans
Self
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
Peace Is More The Product Of Our Day-to-day Living Than Of A Spectacular Program, Intermittently Executed.
Program
Spectacular
Day To Day Living
What Counts Is Not Necessarily The Size Of The Dog In The Fight - It's The Size Of The Fight In The Dog.
Inspirational
Life
Basketball
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
Love Of Liberty Means The Guarding Of Every Resource That Makes Freedom Possible-from The Sanctity Of Our Families And The Wealth Of Our Soil To The Genius [of] Our Scientists.
Mean
Science
Civilization
I Think That People Want Peace So Much That One Of These Days Government Had Better Get Out Of Their Way And Let Them Have It.
Music
Peace
Military
I Have One Yardstick By Which I Test Every Major Problem - And That Yardstick Is: Is It Good For America?
Military
America
Tests
Fortunately For Us And Our World, Youth Is Not Easily Discouraged. Youth With Its Clear Vista And Boundless Faith And Optimism Is Uninhibited By The Thousands Of Considerations That Always Bedevil Man In His Progress. The Hopes Of The World Rest On The Flexibility, Vigor, Capacity For New Thought, And The Fresh Outlook Of The Young.
Men
Our World
Optimism
Most Things Which Are Urgent Are Not Important, And Most Things Which Are Important Are Not Urgent.
Important
Urgent
More Than Ever Before, In Our Country, This Is The Age Of The Individual. Endowed With The Accumulated Knowledge Of Centuries, Armed With All The Instruments Of Modern Science, He Is Still Assured Personal Freedom And Wide Avenues Of Expression So That He May Win For Himself, His Family And His Country Greater Material Comfort, Ease And Happiness; Greater Spiritual Satisfaction And Contentment.
Spiritual
Country
Freedom
The Only Way To Win World War Iii Is To Prevent It.
War
Winning
World
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
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.
Ghetto
Sacrifice
Victory
As We Peer Into Society's Future, We -- You And I, And Our Government -- Must Avoid The Impulse To Live Only For Today, Plundering For Our Own Ease And Convenience The Precious Resources Of Tomorrow. We Cannot Mortgage The Material Assets Of Our Grandchildren Without Risking The Loss Also Of Their Political And Spiritual Heritage. We Want Democracy To Survive For All Generations To Come, Not To Become The Insolvent Phantom Of Tomorrow.
Spiritual
Loss
Grandchildren
Always Try To Associate Yourself With And Learn As Much As You Can From Those Who Know More Than You Do, Who Do Better Than You, Who See More Clearly Than You.
Trying
Knows
Better Than You
First, Separate Ground, Sea And Air Warfare Is Gone Forever. This Lesson We Learned In World War Ii. I Lived That Lesson In Europe. Others Lived It In The Pacific. Millions Of American Veterans Learned It Well.
War
Air
American Veterans
Pull The String, And It Will Follow Wherever You Wish. Push It, And It Will Go Nowhere At All.
Inspiring
Leadership
Fear
You, Of Canada, Are Building A Magnificent Record Of Achievement. My Country Rejoices In It.
Country
Achievement
Presidential
Firmness In Support Of Fundamentals, With Flexibility In Tactics And Methods, Is The Key To Any Hope Of Progress In Negotiation.
Keys
Support
Progress
The Federal Government Has A Responsibility To Manage Wisely Those Public Lands And Forests Under Its Jurisdiction Necessary In The Interest Of The Public As A Whole. ... In The Utilization Of These Lands, The People Are Entitled To Expect That Their Timber, Minerals, Streams And Water Supply, Wildlife And Recreational Values Should Be Safeguarded, Improved And Made Available Not Only For This But For Future Generations.
Responsibility
Land
Government
Men And Women, Inspired By Faith In Man's Dignity, Goaded By Conviction In Man's Responsibility, Labored That This Land Might Be A Better Home For Those Who Followed Them. Because Every American Generation Attacked Its Problems With Fresh Vigor, We Have Peopled A Continent, Subdued Its Prairies And Wilderness, Tamed Its Rivers And Devoted Its Resources To The Betterment Of Those Who Dwell In It.
Home
Responsibility
Men
Any Survey Of The Free World's Defense Structure Cannot Fail To Impart A Feeling Of Regret That So Much Of Our Effort And Resources Must Be Devoted To Armaments.
Regret
War
Effort
The Final Battle Against Intolerance Is To Be Fought - Not In The Chambers Of Any Legislature - But In The Hearts Of Men.
Heart
Men
Battle
The One Quality That Can Be Developed By Studious Reflection And Practice Is The Leadership Of Men.
Leadership
Reflection
Men
The Cost Of One Modern Heavy Bomber Is This: A Modern Brick School In More Than 30 Cities ... We Pay For A Single Fighter With A Half Million Bushels Of Wheat. We Pay For A Single Destroyer With New Homes That Could Have Housed More Than 8,000 People.
Home
School
Cities
If Our Founding Fathers Were Alive Today, They'd Roll Over In Their Graves.
Father
Live For Today
Alive
There's No Tragedy In Life Like The Death Of A Child. Things Never Get Back To The Way They Were.
Children
Tragedy
Politics
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
Recognition Of The Supreme Being Was The First - The Most Basic - Expression Of Americanism.
Expression
Firsts
Recognition
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.
Real
Mean
Men
Only A Fool Would Try To Deprive Working Men And Working Women Of Their Right To Join The Union Of Their Choice.
Men
Choices
Democracy
The Eyes Of The World Are Upon You.
Eye
D Day
World
The Free World Must Not Prove Itself Worthy Of Its Own Past.
Time
Past
World
The Middle Of The Road Is All Of The Usable Surface. The Extremes, Right And Left, Are In The Gutters.
Gutters
Compromise
Resolution
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
Before A Battle, Planning Is Everything. Once The Fighting Has Begun, It's Worthless
Fighting
Battle
Planning
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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