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The Proper Role Of Government, However, Is That Of Partner With The Farmer -- Never His Master. By Every Possible Means We Must Develop And Promote That Partnership -- To The End That Agriculture May Continue To Be A Sound, Enduring Foundation For Our Economy And That Farm Living May Be A Profitable And Satisfying Experience.

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

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The Proper Role Of Government, However, Is That Of Partner With The Farmer -- Never His Master. By Every Possible Means We Must Develop And Promote That Partnership -- To The End That Agriculture May Continue To Be A Sound, Enduring Foundation For Our Economy And That Farm Living May Be A Profitable And Satisfying Experience.

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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.

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I'll Tell You What Leadership Is. It's Persuasion And Conciliation, And Education, And Patience.

You Realise Group Captain That This Might Be The Most Important Weather Forecast In History?

I Thought It Completely Absurd To Mention My Name In The Same Breath As The Presidency.

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Probably No One Here Knows I Coached A Football Team - A Service Team - Playing Against Georgetown. I Think It Was In The Fall Of 1924 Lou Little Was Your Coach, And He Beat Us. But It Was A Very Happy Circumstance, Because It Brought Me The Friendship Of Another Man, Lou Little, Who To This Day Remains My Very Warm Associate And Friend.

The Winning Of War - The Effectiveness In Such Things - Is In The Heart, In The Determination, In The Faith. It Is In Our Beliefs In Our Country, In Our God, Everything That Goes To Make Up America.

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Some Politician Some Years Ago Said That Bad Officials Are Elected By Good Voters Who Do Not Vote.

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Always Try To Associate Yourself Closely With And Learn As Much As You Can From Those Who Know More Than You, Who Do Better Than You, Who See More Clearly Than You. Apart From The Rewards Of Friendship, The Association Might Pay Off At Some Unforeseen Time - That Is Only An Accidental Byproduct. The Important Thing Is That The Learning Will Make You A Better Person.

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Science Seems Ready To Confer Upon Us, As Its Final Gift, The Power To Erase Human Life From This Planet.

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The Only Answer To A Regime That Wages Total Cold War Is To Wage Total Peace.

The Free World Knows, Out Of The Bitter Wisdom Of Experience, That Vigilance And Sacrifice Are The Price Of Liberty.

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

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Soldiers, Sailors And Airmen Of The Allied Expeditionary Force! You Are About To Embark Upon The Great Crusade, Toward Which We Have Striven These Many Months. The Eyes Of The World Are Upon You.

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An Atheist Is A Man Who Watches A Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University Game And Doesn't Care Who Wins.

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I Think Of Going Back To The Sports Field Again, And Let's Take A Baseball Game. Well, You Have Cracked Out A Grounder And You Put In Your Last Ounce Of Energy And You Just Happen To Make First Base. But You Don't Stop There. First Base Is The Beginning. Now You Call On All Your Alertness, Your Skill, Your Energy - And You Count On Your Teammates, You Count On The People That Are Working With You. And The Purpose Of That Getting On First Base Was To Get You Around To Count A Run.

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Only Americans Can Hurt America.

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

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Work Should Be For All Of Us A Word As Honorable And Appealing As Patriotism.

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

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Now, The Education Of Our Children Is Of National Concern, And If They Are Not Educated Properly, It Is A National Calamity.

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This World In Arms Is Not Spending Money Alone. It Is Spending The Sweat Of Its Laborers, The Genius Of Its Scientists, The Hopes Of Its Children.

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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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The Teaching Of Their Ancient Belief Is Filled With Truth For The Present Day. Its Profound Sense Of Justice, Nation To Nation, Man To Man, Is An Essential Part Of Every Religious And Social Order. The Health Of Our Society Depends Upon A Deep And Abiding Respect For The Basic Commandments Of The God Of Israel.

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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.

The Cost Of One Modern Heavy Bomber Is This: A Modern Brick School In More Than 30 Cities ... We Pay For A Single Fighter With A Half Million Bushels Of Wheat. We Pay For A Single Destroyer With New Homes That Could Have Housed More Than 8,000 People.

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The True Purpose Of Education Is To Prepare Young Men And Women For Effective Citizenship In A Free Form Of Government.

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 Have One Yardstick By Which I Test Every Major Problem - And That Yardstick Is: Is It Good For America?

But I Believe This: By And Large, The United States Ought To Be Able To Choose For Its President Anybody That It Wants, Regardless Of The Number Of Terms He Has Served. That Is What I Believe. Now, Some People Have Said, "you Let Him Get Enough Power And This Will Lead Toward A One-party Government." That, I Don't Believe. I Have Got The Utmost Faith In The Long-term Common Sense Of The American People. Therefore, I Don't Think There Should Be Any Inhibitions Other Than Those That Were In The 35-year Age Limit And So On. I Think That Was Enough, Myself.

The Problem Is Not Merely Man Against Man Or Nation Against Nation. It Is Man Against War.

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.

Men Of Widely Divergent Views In Our Own Country Live In Peace Together Because They Share Certain Common Aspirations Which Are More Important Than Their Differences.... The Common Responsibility Of All Americans Is To Become Effective, Helpful Participants In A Way Of Life That Blends And Harmonizes The Fiercely Competitive Demands Of The Individual And Society.

We Will Bankrupt Ourselves In The Vain Search For Absolute Security.

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If We Make Ourselves Worthy Of America's Ideals, If We Do Not Forget That Our Nation Was Founded On The Premise That All Men Are Creatures Of God's Making, The World Will Come To Know That It Is Free Men Who Carry Forward The True Promise Of Human Progress And Dignity.

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We Know Something Of The Cost Of That War. We Were In It From December Seventh, '41, Till August Of '45. Ever Since That Time, We Have Been Waging Peace. It Has Had Its Ups And Downs Just As The War Did.

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When Shallow Critics Denounce The Profit Motive Inherent In Our System Of Private Enterprise, They Ignore The Fact That It Is An Economic Support Of Every Human Right We Possess And Without It, All Rights Would Disappear.

Dollars And Guns Are No Substitutes For Brains And Will Power.

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

Our Pleasures Were Simple - They Included Survival.

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There Is No Victory At Bargain Basement Prices.

The World Must Know What Happened, And Never Forget.

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Yet, In Holding Scientific Research And Discovery In Respect, As We Should, We Must Also Be Alert To The Equal And Opposite Danger That Public Policy Could Itself Become The Captive Of A Scientific-technological Elite.

It Is My Personal Conviction That Almost Any One Of The Newborn States Of The World Would Far Rather Embrace Communism Or Any Other Form Of Dictatorship Than Acknowledge The Political Domination Of Another Government, Even Though That Brought To Each Citizen A Far Higher Standard Of Living.

Our Forces Saved The Remnants Of The Jewish People Of Europe For A New Life And A New Hope In The Reborn Land Of Israel. Along With All Men Of Good Will, I Salute The Young State And Wish It Well.

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.

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

Personal Prayer, It Seems To Me, Is One Of The Simplest Necessities Of Life, As Basic To The Individual As Sunshine, Food And Water-and At Times, Of Course, More So. By Prayer I Mean An Effort To Get In Touch With The Infinite. We Know That Our Prayers Are Imperfect. Of Course They Are. We Are Imperfect Human Beings. A Thousand Experiences Have Convinced Me Beyond Room Of Doubt That Prayer Multiplies The Strength Of The Individual And Brings Within The Scope Of His Capabilities Almost Any Conceivable Objective.

Love Of Liberty Means The Guarding Of Every Resource That Makes Freedom Possible-from The Sanctity Of Our Families And The Wealth Of Our Soil To The Genius [of] Our Scientists.

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

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.

Teachers Need Our Active Support And Encouragement. They Are Doing One Of The Most Necessary And Exacting Jobs In The Land. They Are Developing Our Most Precious National Resource: Our Children, Our Future Citizens.

We Must Achieve Both Security And Solvency. In Fact, The Foundation Of Military Strength Is Economic Strength.

Fortunately For Us And Our World, Young People Are Not Easily Discouraged. The Hopes Of The World Rest On The Fresh Outlook Of Young People

The Friendship Of A Dog Is Precious. It Becomes Even More So When One Is So Far Removed From Home.... I Have A Scottie. In Him I Find Consolation And Diversion... He Is The "one Person" To Whom I Can Talk Without The Conversation Coming Back To War.

Few Women, I Fear, Have Had Such Reason As I Have To Think The Long Sad Years Of Youth Were Worth Living For The Sake Of Middle Age.

If Men Can Develop Weapons That Are So Terrifying As To Make The Thought Of Global War Include Almost A Sentence For Suicide, You Would Think That Man's Intelligence And His Comprehension... Would Include Also His Ability To Find A Peaceful Solution.

I Think That People Want Peace So Much That One Of These Days Government Had Better Get Out Of Their Way And Let Them Have It.

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.

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