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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)

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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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)

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According To Plan

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Any Man Who Wants To Be President Is Either An Egomaniac Or Crazy.

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America Is Best Described By One Word, Freedom.

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I Shall Make That Trip. I Shall Go To Korea.

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Never Lose Your Temper, Except Intentionally.

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Disorganization Can Scarcely Fail To Result In Efficiency.

Disorganization

The Next Time You See One Of Those Squirrels Go Near My Putting Green, Take A Gun And Shoot It

To Blend, Without Coercion, The Individual Good And The Common Good Is The Essence Of Citizenship In A Free Country.

Your Country, My Country - Each Is A Better And Stronger And More Influential Nation Because Each Can Rely Upon Every Resource Of The Other In Days Of Crisis. Beyond This, Each Can Work And Grow And Prosper With The Other Through Years Of Quiet Peace.

In This Way We Shall Constantly Strengthen Those Spiritual Weapons Which Forever Will Be Our Country's Most Powerful Resource In Peace And War.

Now This Brings Me To My Main Topic - Our Military Strength - More Specifically, How To Stay Strong Against Threat From Outside, Without Undermining The Economic Health That Supports Our Security.

It Is My Personal Conviction That Almost Any One Of The Newborn States Of The World Would Far Rather Embrace Communism Or Any Other Form Of Dictatorship Than Acknowledge The Political Domination Of Another Government, Even Though That Brought To Each Citizen A Far Higher Standard Of Living.

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.

Forces Of Good And Evil Are Massed And Armed And Opposed As Rarely Before In History. Freedom Is Pitted Against Slavery; Lightness Against The Dark... In The Final Choice, A Soldier's Pack Is Not So Heavy A Burden As A Prisoner's Chains.

Never Be More Scared Of The Enemy Than You Think He Is Of You.

In Most Communities It Is Illegal To Cry 'fire' In A Crowded Assembly. Should It Not Be Considered Serious International Misconduct To Manufacture A General War Scare In An Effort To Achieve Local Political Aims?

I Am Inclined By Nature To Be Optimistic About The Capacity Of A Person To Rise Higher Than He Or She Has Thought Possible Once Interest And Ambition Are Aroused.

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

Hope Spurs Humans Everywhere To Work Harder To Endure More Now That The Future May Be Better.

Politics Should Be The Part-time Profession Of Every Citizen.

This Desk Of Mine Is One At Which A Man May Die, But From Which He Cannot Resign.

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 . . .

We Succeed Only As We Identify In Life, Or In War, Or In Anything Else, A Single Overriding Objective, And Make All Other Considerations Bend To That One Objective.

Pull The String, And It Will Follow Wherever You Wish. Push It, And It Will Go Nowhere At All.

War Is A Grim, Cruel Business, A Business Justified Only As A Means Of Sustaining The Forces Of Good Against Those Of Evil.

The President Cannot Escape From His Office.

Only A Fool Would Try To Deprive Working Men And Working Women Of Their Right To Join The Union Of Their Choice.

The One Quality That Can Be Developed By Studious Reflection And Practice Is The Leadership Of Men.

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.

Personal Prayer, It Seems To Me, Is One Of The Simplest Necessities Of Life, As Basic To The Individual As Sunshine, Food And Water-and At Times, Of Course, More So. By Prayer I Mean An Effort To Get In Touch With The Infinite. We Know That Our Prayers Are Imperfect. Of Course They Are. We Are Imperfect Human Beings. A Thousand Experiences Have Convinced Me Beyond Room Of Doubt That Prayer Multiplies The Strength Of The Individual And Brings Within The Scope Of His Capabilities Almost Any Conceivable Objective.

When I Was A Small Boy In Kansas, A Friend Of Mine And I Went Fishing. I Told Him I Wanted To Be A Real Major League Baseball Player, A Genuine Professional Like Honus Wagner. My Friend Said That He'd Like To Be President Of The United States. Neither Of Us Got Our Wish.

[t]he Rule Of Law Does More Than Ensure Freedom From High-handed Action By Rulers. It Ensures Justice Between Man And Man However Humble The One And However Powerful The Other. A Man With Five Dollars In The Bank Can Call To Account The Corporation With Five Billion Dollars In Assets-and The Two Will Be Heard As Equals Before The Law.

[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.

I Hate War As Only A Soldier Who Has Lived It Can, Only As One Who Has Seen Its Brutality, Its Futility, Its Stupidity.

Things Have Never Been More Like The Way They Are Today In History.

It Is Far More Important To Be Able To Hit The Target Than It Is To Haggle Over Who Makes A Weapon Or Who Pulls A Trigger.

Never Let Yourself Be Persuaded That Any One Great Man, Any One Leader, Is Necessary To The Salvation Of America. When America Consists Of One Leader And 158 Million Followers, It Will No Longer Be America.

One Small Ball In The Air. I Wouldn't Believe That At This Moment You Have To Fear The Intelligence Aspects Of This.

I Believe That For The Past Twenty Years There Has Been A Creeping Socialism Spreading In The United States.

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.

When People Speak To You About A Preventive War, You Tell Them To Go And Fight It. After My Experience, I Have Come To Hate War.

A Voter Without A Ballot Is Like A Soldier Without A Bullet.

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