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Inflation Is Not A Robin Hood, Taking From The Rich To Give To The Poor. Rather, It Deals Most Cruelly With Those Who Can Least Protect Themselves. It Strikes Hardest Those Millions Of Our Citizens Whose Incomes Do Not Quickly Rise With The Cost Of Living. When Prices Soar, The Pensioner And The Widow See Their Security Undermined, The Man Of Thrift Sees His Savings Melt Away; The White Collar Worker, The Minister, And The Teacher See Their Standards Of Living Dragged Down.

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Inflation Is Not A

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Inflation Is Not A Robin Hood, Taking From The Rich To Give To The Poor. Rather, It Deals Most Cruelly With Those Who Can Least Protect Themselves. It Strikes Hardest Those Millions Of Our Citizens Whose Incomes Do Not Quickly Rise With The Cost Of Living. When Prices Soar, The Pensioner And The Widow See Their Security Undermined, The Man Of Thrift Sees His Savings Melt Away; The White Collar Worker, The Minister, And The Teacher See Their Standards Of Living Dragged Down.

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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.

Leadership Is The Ability To Decide What Is To Be Done And Then Get Others To Do It.

In This Hope, Among The Things We Teach To The Young Are Such Truths As The Transcendent Value Of The Individual And The Dignity Of All People, The Futility And Stupidity Of War, Its Destructiveness Of Life And Its Degradation Of Human Values.

May We Grow In Strength — Without Pride In Self. May We, In Our Dealings With All Peoples Of The Earth, Ever Speak Truth And Serve Justice. And So Shall America — In The Sight Of All Men Of Good Will — Prove True To The Honorable Purposes That Bind And Rule Us As A People In All This Time Of Trial Through Which We Pass.

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.

Inspirational Life

By Mutual Respect, Understanding And With Good Will We Can Find Acceptable Solutions To Any Problems Which Exist Or May Arise Between Us.

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.

All Generalizations Are Inaccurate, Including This One.

The Other Day Aks And I Went Up To Your Ranch For A Day's Fishing. I Cannot Remember Any Day When We Have Had More Fun On A Stream. We Had Along With Us Three Newspaper Men And A Few Secret Service People, Many Of Whom Had Never Seen A Trout Stream, So We Did The Thing Up Right By Borrowing Frying Pans, Bacon And Corn Meal From The Wife Of Your Rancher - And We Cooked An Outdoor Meal For The Crowd. It Was Really Quite A Day.

Should Any Political Party Attempt To Abolish Social Security Unemployment Insurance And Eliminate Labor Laws And Farm Programs You Would Not Hear Of That Party Again In Our Political History. There Is A Tiny Splinter Group Of Course That Believes You Can Do These Things. Among Them Are A Few Other Texas Oil Millionaires And An Occasional Politician Or Business Man From Other Areas. Their Number Is Negligible And They Are Stupid.

There Is No Victory At Bargain Basement Prices.

It Is Still A Fact That Our Common Frontier Grows Stronger Every Year, Defended Only By Friendship.

War Is Mankind's Most Tragic And Stupid Folly; To Seek Or Advise Its Deliberate Provocation Is A Black Crime Against All Men.

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

No One Should Ever Sit In This Office Over 70 Years Old, And That I Know.

Legislation To Apply The Principle Of Equal Pay For Equal Work Without Discrimination Because Of Sex Is A Matter Of Simple Justice

I Come From The Very Heart Of America.

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 . . .

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.

Sweet Praise Is Like Perfume. It Is Fine If You Don't Swallow It.

If You Want Total Security, Go To Prison. There You're Fed, Clothed, Given Medical Care And So On. The Only Thing Lacking... Is Freedom.

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.

I Have Full Confidence In Your Courage And Devotion To Duty And Skill In Battle. We Will Accept Nothing Less Than Full Victory! Good Luck! And Let Us Beseech The Blessing Of Almighty God Upon This Great And Noble Undertaking.

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