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Every Gathering Of Americans-whether A Few On The Porch Of A Crossroads Store Or Massed Thousands In A Great Stadium-is The Possessor Of A Potentially Immeasurable Influence On The Future.

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Every Gathering Of Americans-whether A Few On The Porch Of A Crossroads Store Or Massed Thousands In A Great Stadium-is The Possessor Of A Potentially Immeasurable Influence On The Future.

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Memory Should Be The Starting Point Of The Present.

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.

Men Of Widely Divergent Views In Our Own Country Live In Peace Together Because They Share Certain Common Aspirations Which Are More Important Than Their Differences.... The Common Responsibility Of All Americans Is To Become Effective, Helpful Participants In A Way Of Life That Blends And Harmonizes The Fiercely Competitive Demands Of The Individual And Society.

Teachers Need Our Active Support And Encouragement. They Are Doing One Of The Most Necessary And Exacting Jobs In The Land. They Are Developing Our Most Precious National Resource: Our Children, Our Future Citizens.

The Only Things Worth Counting On Are People You Can Count On.

In The Service, When A Man Gives You His Word, His Word Is Binding. In Politics, You Never Know.

American Working Men Are Principals In The Three-member Team Of Capital, Management, Labor. Never Have They Regarded Themselves As A Servile Class That Could Attain Freedom Only Through Destruction Of The Industrial Economy.

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.

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.

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.

In Order To Insure Proper And Widespread Observance Of This Anniversary, All Veterans, All Veterans' Organizations, And The Entire Citizenry Will Wish To Join Hands In The Common Purpose.

Some Politician Some Years Ago Said That Bad Officials Are Elected By Good Voters Who Do Not Vote.

Whatever America Hopes To Bring To Pass In The World Must First Come To Pass In The Heart Of America.

The Proudest Thing I Can Claim Is That I Am From Abilene.

Freedom Bestows On Us The Priceless Gift Of Opportunity - If We Neglect Our Opportunities We Shall Certainly Lose Our Freedom.

If Men Can Develop Weapons That Are So Terrifying As To Make The Thought Of Global War Include Almost A Sentence For Suicide, You Would Think That Man's Intelligence And His Comprehension... Would Include Also His Ability To Find A Peaceful Solution.

Possibly My Hatred Of War Blinds Me So That I Cannot Comprehend The Arguments They Adduce. But, In My Opinion, There Is No Such Thing As A Preventive War. Although This Suggestion Is Repeatedly Made, None Has Yet Explained How War Prevents War. Worse Than This, No One Has Been Able To Explain Away The Fact That War Creates The Conditions That Beget War.

Mob Rule Can Not Be Allowed To Override The Decisions Of Our Courts.

Of Course Overlord Did Not Fail. How Could It? With Some Many Fine Young Men And Women From All Corners Of The Earth All Determined To Do Their Best To Free A World Gone Half Mad.

So Long As We Govern Our Nation By The Letter And Spirit Of The Bill Of Rights, We Can Be Sure That Our Nation Will Grow In Strength And Wisdom And Freedom.

Only By Trusting In God Can A Man Carrying Responsibility Find Repose.

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.

The Only Way To Win World War Iii Is To Prevent It.

I Believe It Is A Tradition In Baseball That When A Pitcher Has A No-hitter Going, No One Reminds Him Of It.

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.

But I Believe This: By And Large, The United States Ought To Be Able To Choose For Its President Anybody That It Wants, Regardless Of The Number Of Terms He Has Served. That Is What I Believe. Now, Some People Have Said, "you Let Him Get Enough Power And This Will Lead Toward A One-party Government." That, I Don't Believe. I Have Got The Utmost Faith In The Long-term Common Sense Of The American People. Therefore, I Don't Think There Should Be Any Inhibitions Other Than Those That Were In The 35-year Age Limit And So On. I Think That Was Enough, Myself.

Our Real Problem, Then, Is Not Our Strength Today; It Is Rather The Vital Necessity Of Action Today To Ensure Our Strength Tomorrow.

We Merely Want To Live In Peace With All The World.

We Need An Adequate Defense, But Every Arms Dollar We Spend Above Adequacy Has A Long-term Weakening Effect Upon The Nation And Its Security.

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