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The Hope Of The World Is That Wisdom Can Arrest Conflict Between Brothers. I Believe That War Is The Deadly Harvest Of Arrogant And Unreasoning Minds. And I Find Grounds For This Belief In The Wisdom Literature Of Proverbs. It Says In Effect This: Panic Strikes Like A Storm And Calamity Comes Like A Whirlwind To Those Who Hate Knowledge And Ignore Their God.

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

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The Hope Of The

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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The Hope Of The World Is That Wisdom Can Arrest Conflict Between Brothers. I Believe That War Is The Deadly Harvest Of Arrogant And Unreasoning Minds. And I Find Grounds For This Belief In The Wisdom Literature Of Proverbs. It Says In Effect This: Panic Strikes Like A Storm And Calamity Comes Like A Whirlwind To Those Who Hate Knowledge And Ignore Their God.

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According To Plan

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Military Industrial Complex

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This World Of Ours... Must Avoid Becoming A Community Of Dreadful Fear And Hate, And Be, Instead, A Proud Confederation Of Mutual Trust And Respect.

You Will Not Find It Difficult To Prove That Battles, Campaigns, And Even Wars Have Been Won Or Lost Primarily Because Of Logistics.

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.

Plans Are Nothing; Planning Is Everything.

Every Step We Take Towards Making The State Our Caretaker Of Our Lives, By That Much We Move Toward Making The State Our Master.

Well, When You Come Down To It, I Don't See That A Reporter Could Do Much To A President, Do You?

Unless We Progress, We Regress.

Humility Must Always Be The Portion Of Any Man Who Receives Acclaim Earned In The Blood Of His Followers And The Sacrifices Of His Friends.

Your Task Will Not Be An Easy One. Your Enemy Is Well-trained, Well-equipped And Battle-hardened. He Will Fight Savagely

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

Censorship, In My Opinion, Is A Stupid And Shallow Way Of Approaching The Solution To Any Problem.

Any Survey Of The Free World's Defense Structure Cannot Fail To Impart A Feeling Of Regret That So Much Of Our Effort And Resources Must Be Devoted To Armaments.

If You Are Waging Peace, You Can't Be Too Particular Sometimes About The Special Attitudes That Different Countries Take. We Were A Young Country Once, And Our Whole Policy For The First 150 Years Was, We Were Neutral.

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

The Peace We Seek, Founded Upon Decent Trust And Cooperation Among Nations, Can Be Fortified Not By Weapons Of War But By Wheat And Cotton, By Milk And Wool, By Meat And Timber, And By Rice. These Are Words That Translate Into Every Language.

How Has Retirement Affected My Golf Game? A Lot More People Beat Me Now.

Un-american Activity Cannot Be Prevented Or Routed Out By Employing Un-american Methods; To Preserve Freedom We Must Use The Tools That Freedom Provides.

People In The Long Run Are Going To Do More To Promote Peace Than Governments.

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.

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

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.

Together We Must Learn How To Compose Differences, Not With Arms, But With Intellect And Decent Purpose.

Never Waste A Minute Thinking About People You Don't Like.

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

Of Course Overlord Did Not Fail. How Could It? With Some Many Fine Young Men And Women From All Corners Of The Earth All Determined To Do Their Best To Free A World Gone Half Mad.

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

American Working Men Are Principals In The Three-member Team Of Capital, Management, Labor. Never Have They Regarded Themselves As A Servile Class That Could Attain Freedom Only Through Destruction Of The Industrial Economy.

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