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I Would Rather Try To Persuade A Man To Go Along, Because Once I Have Persuaded Him, He Will Stick. If I Scare Him, He Will Stay Just As Long As He Is Scared, And Then He Is Gone.

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

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I Would Rather Try To Persuade A Man To Go Along, Because Once I Have Persuaded Him, He Will Stick. If I Scare Him, He Will Stay Just As Long As He Is Scared, And Then He Is Gone.

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It Is Not Enough To Take This Weapon Out Of The Hands Of Soldiers. It Must Be Put Into The Hands Of Those Who Will Know How To Strip Its Military Casing And Adapt It To The Arts Of Peace.

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.

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.

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

Like All Successful Politicians I Married Above Myself.

I Don't Think The United States Needs Superpatriots. We Need Patriotism, Honestly Practiced By All Of Us, And We Don't Need These People That Are More Patriotic Than You Or Anyone Else.

There Is No Victory At Bargain Basement Prices.

It Is Probably A Pity That Every Citizen Of Each State Cannot Visit All The Others, To See The Differences, To Learn What We Have In Common, And Come Back With A Richer, Fuller Understanding Of America - In All Its Beauty, In All Its Dignity, In All Its Strength, In Support Of Moral Principles.

The Founding Father Expressed In Words For All To Read The Ideal Of Government Based Upon The Dignity Of The Individual. That Ideal Previously Had Existed Only In The Hearts And Minds Of Men. They Produced The Timeless Documents Upon Which The Nation Is Rounded And Has Grown Great. They, Recognizing God As The Author Of Individual Fights, Declared That The Purpose Of Government Is To Secure Those Rights.

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.

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

Plans Are Nothing; Planning Is Everything.

If Any Blame Or Fault Attaches To The Attempt, It Is Mine Alone.

The World Could Be Fixed Of Its Problems If Every Child Understood The Necessity Of Their Existence.

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

Take Your Job Seriously, But Not Yourself

'peace And Friendship, In Freedom.'

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

And They Can Appreciate, Through Personal Experience, That The Really Decisive Battleground Of American Freedom Is In The Hearts And Minds Of Our Own People... Each Day We Must Ask That Almighty God Will Set And Keep His Protecting Hand Over Us So That We May Pass On To Those Who Come After Us The Heritage Of A Free People, Secure In Their God-given Rights And In Full Control Of A Government Dedicated To The Preservation Of Those Rights.

No Treaty Or International Agreement Can Contravene The Constitution.

We Believe That Our Truly Urgent Need Is To Make Our Nation Secure, Our Economy Strong And Our Dollar Sound. For Every American This Matter Of The Sound Dollar Is Crucial. Without A Sound Dollar, Every American Family Would Face A Renewal Of Inflation, An Ever-increasing Cost Of Living, The Withering Away Of Savings And Life Insurance Policies.

The National Government Was Itself The Creature Of The States...yet Today It Is Often Made To Appear That The Creature, Frankenstein-like, Is Determined To Destroy The Creators.

Compromise Is Like The Middle Of The Road; Always Safer To Walk On Than The Edges.

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.

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.

To Have A Free, Peaceful And Prosperous World We Must Be Ever Stronger Particularly In The Spiritual Things....it Is American Belief In Decency And Justice And Progress And The Value Of Individual Liberty Because Of The Rights Conferred On Each Of Us By Our Creator That Willcarry Us Through.... There Must Be Something In The Heart As Well As The Head.

Our Forms Of Government - Though Both Cast In The Democratic Pattern - Are Greatly Different. Indeed, Sometimes It Appears That Many Of Our Misunderstandings Spring From An Imperfect Knowledge On The Part Of Both Of Us Of The Dissimilarities In Our Forms Of Government.

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