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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. To Preserve His Freedom Of Worship, His Equality Before Law, His Liberty To Speak And Act As He Sees Fit, Subject Only To Provisions That He Trespass Not Upon Similar Rights Of Others - A Londoner Will Fight. So Will A Citizen Of Abilene. When We Consider These Things, Then The Valley Of The Thames Draws Closer To The Farms Of Kansas And The Plains Of Texas.

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

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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. To Preserve His Freedom Of Worship, His Equality Before Law, His Liberty To Speak And Act As He Sees Fit, Subject Only To Provisions That He Trespass Not Upon Similar Rights Of Others - A Londoner Will Fight. So Will A Citizen Of Abilene. When We Consider These Things, Then The Valley Of The Thames Draws Closer To The Farms Of Kansas And The Plains Of Texas.

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

The President Cannot Escape From His Office.

Preventive War Was An Invention Of Hitler. I Would Not Even Listen To Anyone Seriously That Came And Talked About Such A Thing.

I Know Something About That War, And I Never Want To See That History Repeated. But, My Fellow Americans, It Certainly Can Be Repeated If The Peace-loving Democratic Nations Again Fearfully Practice A Policy Of Standing Idly By While Big Aggressors Use Armed Force To Conquer The Small And Weak.

Morale Is The Greatest Single Factor In Successful Wars.

We Look Upon This Shaken Earth, And We Declare Our Firm And Fixed Purpose - The Building Of A Peace With Justice In A World Where Moral Law Prevails.

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.

Having Established As Our Goals A Lasting World Peace With Justice And The Security Of Freedom On This Earth, We Must Be Prepared To Make Whatever Sacrifices Are Demanded As We Pursue This Path To Its End.

I Also Ache At That Thought Your Majesty... But If They Do Not Offer The Sacrifice In Blood Now, We Will All Pay Dearly With Added Gallons Later. So If Some Most Die It Is In A Worthy Cause.

The Stop-watch Of History Is Running. The Race Is On . . .

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

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

Only An Alert And Knowledgeable Citizenry Can Complel The Proper Meshing Of The Huge Industrial And Military Machinery Of Defense With Our Peaceful Methods And Goals, So That Security And Liberty May Prosper Together.

A People That Values Its Privileges Above Its Principles Soon Loses Both.

The Unity Of All Who Dwell In Freedom Is Their Only Sure Defense.

Without God, There Would Be No American Form Of Government, Nor An American Way Of Life.

Today In America, Unions Have A Secure Place In Our Industrial Life. Only A Handful Of Reactionaries Harbor The Ugly Thought Of Breaking Unions And Depriving Working Men And Women Of The Right To Join The Union Of Their Choice. I Have No Use For Those - Regardless Of Their Political Party - Who Hold Some Vain And Foolish Dream Of Spinning The Clock Back To Days When Organized Labor Was Huddled, Almost As A Hapless Mass. Only A Fool Would Try To Deprive Working Men And Women Of The Right To Join The Union Of Their Choice.

We Merely Want To Live In Peace With All The World, To Trade With Them, To Commune With Them, To Learn From Their Culture As They May Learn From Ours, So That The Products Of Our Toil May Be Used For Our Schools And Our Roads And Our Churches And Not For Guns And Planes And Tanks And Ships Of War.

I Believe We Must Be Strong Militarily, But Beyond A Certain Point Military Strength Can Become A National Weakness.

From Behind The Iron Curtain, There Are Signs That Tyranny Is In Trouble And Reminders That Its Structure Is As Brittle As Its Surface Is Hard.

As Our Heart Summons Our Strength, Our Wisdom Must Direct It.

The Speed, Accuracy And Devastating Power Of American Artillery Won Confidence And Admiration From The Troops It Supported And Inspired Fear And Respect In Their Enemy.

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

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.

No People On Earth Can Be Held, As A People, To Be An Enemy, For All Humanity Shares The Common Hunger For Peace And Fellowship And Justice.

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

There Must Be Justice, Sensed And Shared By All Peoples, For, Without Justice The World Can Know Only A Tense And Unstable Truce.

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