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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.

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

The Past Sharpens Perspective, Warns Against Pitfalls, And Helps To Point The Way.

Arms Alone Can Give The World No Permanent Peace, No Confident Security. Arms Are Solely For Defense - To Protect From Violent Assault What We Already Have. They Are Only A Costly Insurance. They Cannot Add To Human Progress.

And They Can Appreciate, Through Personal Experience, That The Really Decisive Battleground Of American Freedom Is In The Hearts And Minds Of Our Own People... Each Day We Must Ask That Almighty God Will Set And Keep His Protecting Hand Over Us So That We May Pass On To Those Who Come After Us The Heritage Of A Free People, Secure In Their God-given Rights And In Full Control Of A Government Dedicated To The Preservation Of Those Rights.

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

I Know Only One Method Of Operation: To Be As Honest With Others As I Am With Myself.

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

The Final Battle Against Intolerance Is To Be Fought - Not In The Chambers Of Any Legislature - But In The Hearts Of Men.

My Constant Prayer, These Days, As I Start My Backswing Is, 'oh, Please Let Me Swing Slowly.' The Trouble Is That Sometimes I Wonder Whether I Swing At All; Whether I Am Not Strictly A Chopper.

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.

The Sergeant Is The Army.

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

There Are A Number Of Things Wrong With Washington. One Of Them Is That Everyone Is Too Far From Home.

[not Achieving A Nuclear Test Ban] Would Have To Be Classed As The Greatest Disappointment Of Any Administration Of Any Decade, Of Any Time And Of Any Party.

A Preventive War, To My Mind, Is An Impossibility Today. How Could You Have One If One Of Its Features Would Be Several Cities Lying In Ruins, Several Cities Where Many, Many Thousands Of People Would Be Dead And Injured And Mangled, The Transportation Systems Destroyed, Sanitation Implements And Systems All Gone? That Isn't Preventive War; That Is War.

"in The Goodness Of Time, All Peoples Will Come To Live Together In A Peace Guaranteed By The Binding Force Of Mutual Respect And Love."

Don't Join The Book Burners... Don't Be Afraid To Go In Your Library And Read Every Book.

Memory Should Be The Starting Point Of The Present.

The Supreme Belief Of Our Society Is The Dignity And Freedom Of The Individual. To The Respect Of That Dignity, To The Defense Of That Freedom, All Effort Is Pledged.

I Am Inclined By Nature To Be Optimistic About The Capacity Of A Person To Rise Higher Than He Or She Has Thought Possible Once Interest And Ambition Are Aroused.

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.

We Are Not Saints. We Know We Make Mistakes, But At Least Our Heart Is With The Right Cause.

One Small Ball In The Air. I Wouldn't Believe That At This Moment You Have To Fear The Intelligence Aspects Of This.

The World Is More Like It Is Now Then It Ever Has Before.

The Same Day I Saw My First Horror Camp, I Visited Every Nook And Cranny. I Felt It My Duty To Be In A Position From Then On To Testify About These Things In Case There Ever Grew Up At Home The Belief Or Assumption That The Stories Of Nazi Brutality Were Just Propaganda.

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