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Now All Of Us Deplore This Vast Military Spending. Yet, In The Face Of The Soviet Attitude, We Realize Its Necessity. Whatever The Cost, America Will Keep Itself Secure. But In The Process We Must Not, By Our Own Hand, Destroy Or Distort The American System. This We Could Do By Useless Overspending. I Know One Sure Way To Overspend. That Is By Overindulging Sentimental Attachments To Outmoded Military Machines And Concepts.

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Now All Of Us Deplore This Vast Military Spending. Yet, In The Face Of The Soviet Attitude, We Realize Its Necessity. Whatever The Cost, America Will Keep Itself Secure. But In The Process We Must Not, By Our Own Hand, Destroy Or Distort The American System. This We Could Do By Useless Overspending. I Know One Sure Way To Overspend. That Is By Overindulging Sentimental Attachments To Outmoded Military Machines And Concepts.

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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.

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.

I Firmly Believe That The Future Of Civilization Is Absolutely Dependent Upon Finding Some Way Of Resolving International Differences Without Resorting To War.

Accomplishment Will Prove To Be A Journey, Not A Destination.

We Have Heard Much Of The Phrase, Peace And Friendship. This Phrase, In Expressing The Aspiration Of America, Is Not Complete. We Should Say Instead, Peace And Friendship, In Freedom. This, I Think, Is America's Real Message To The Rest Of The World.

In The Highest Sense The Bible Is To Us The Unique Repository Of Eternal Spiritual Truths.

Neither A Wise Man Nor A Brave Man Lies Down On The Tracks Of History To Wait For The Train Of The Future To Run Over Him.

How Can We Appraise A Proposal If The Terms Hurled At Our Ears Can Mean Anything Or Nothing, And Change Their Significance With The Inflection Of The Voice? Welfare State, National Socialism, Radical, Liberal, Conservative, Reactionary And A Regiment Of Others ... These Terms In Today's Usage, Are Generally Compounds Of Confusion And Prejudice. If Our Attitudes Are Muddled, Our Language Is Often To Blame. A Good Tonic For Clearer Thinking Is A Dose Of Precise, Legal Definition.

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 President Cannot Escape From His Office.

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

There Is One Thing About Being President -- Nobody Can Tell You When To Sit Down.

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.

The Eyes Of The World Are Upon You.

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.

Controlled, Universal Disarmament Is The Imperative Of Our Time. The Demand For It By The Hundreds Of Millions Whose Chief Concern Is The Long Future Of Themselves And Their Children Will, I Hope, Become So Universal And So Insistent That No Man, No Government Anywhere, Can Withstand It.

The Quest For Peace Is The Statesman's Most Exacting Duty... Practical Progress To Lasting Peace Is His Fondest Hope.

Art Is A Universal Language And Through It Each Nation Makes Its Own Unique Contribution To The Culture Of Mankind.

Well, It's Hard For A Mere Man To Believe That Woman Doesn't Have Equal Rights.

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.

Beware The Influence Of The Military-industrial Complex.

Each And All Of Us Must Summon To Mind The Words Of Him Whom We Honor This Easter Time: 'when A Strong Man, Armed, Keepeth His Palace, His Goods Are In Peace'.

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

The Seeker Is Never So Popular As The Sought. People Want What They Can't Get.

These Are Not Bad People. All They Are Concerned About Is To See That Their Sweet Little Girls Are Not Required To Sit In School Alongside Some Big Overgrown Negroes.

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