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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.

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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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.

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Black And White

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American Veterans

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Do Not Needlessly Endanger Your Lives Until I Give You The Signal.

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This Desk Of Mine Is One At Which A Man May Die, But From Which He Cannot Resign.

A World That Begins To Witness The Rebirth Of Trust Among Nations Can Find Its Way To A Peace That Is Neither Partial Nor Punitive. With All Who Will Work In Good Faith Toward Such A Peace, We Are Ready, With Renewed Resolve, To Strive To Redeem The Near-lost Hopes Of Our Day.

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Disorganization

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Under The Clouds Of War, It Is Humanity Hanging On A Cross Of Iron.

The Only Things Worth Counting On Are People You Can Count On.

I Have Said Time And Again There Is No Place On This Earth To Which I Would Not Travel, There Is No Chore I Would Not Undertake If I Had Any Faintest Hope That, By So Doing, I Would Promote The General Cause Of World Peace.

There Is No Person In This Room Whose Basic Rights Are Not Involved In Any Successful Defiance To The Carrying Out Of Court Orders.

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'.

...the Exchange Of Students...should Be Vastly Expanded...information And Education Are Powerful Forces In Support Of Peace. Just As War Begins In The Minds Of Men, So Does Peace.

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

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.

The System Is Not Intended As A Substitute For Private Savings, Pension Plans, And Insurance Protection. It Is, Rather, Intended As The Foundation Upon Which These Other Forms Of Protection Can Be Soundly Built. Thus, The Individual's Own Work, His Planning And His Thrift Will Bring Him A Higher Standard Of Living Upon His Retirement, Or His Family A Higher Standard Of Living In The Event Of His Death, Than Would Otherwise Be The Case. Hence The System Both Encourages Thrift And Self-reliance, And Helps To Prevent Destitution In Our National Life.

Why Don't You Lay The Footpaths Where The Students Want To Walk?

I Like To Believe That People In The Long Run Are Going To Do More To Promote Peace Than Our Governments. Indeed, I Think That People Want Peace So Much That One Of These Days Governments Had Better Get Out Of The Way And Let Them Have It.

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.

We Have Got To Fight It [communism] With Something Better, Not Try To Conceal The Thinking Of Our Own People. They Are Part Of America. And Even If They Think Ideas That Are Contrary To Ours, Their Right To Say Them, Their Right To Record Them, And Their Right To Have Them At Places Where They Are Accessible To Others Is Unquestioned, Or It Isn't America.

Every Gun That Is Made, Every Warship Launched, Every Rocket Fired, Signifies In The Final Sense A Theft From Those Who Hunger And Are Not Fed, Those Who Are Cold And Are Not Clothed.

Never Let Yourself Be Persuaded That Any One Great Man, Any One Leader, Is Necessary To The Salvation Of America. When America Consists Of One Leader And 158 Million Followers, It Will No Longer Be America.

It Is Not Enough To Take This Weapon Out Of The Hands Of Soldiers. It Must Be Put Into The Hands Of Those Who Will Know How To Strip Its Military Casing And Adapt It To The Arts Of Peace.

I Call Upon Those Who Love Freedom To Stand With Us Now. Together We Shall Achieve Victory.

In This Way We Are Reaffirming The Transcendence Of Religious Faith In America's Heritage And Future. From This Day Forward, The Millions Of Our Schoolchildren Will Daily Proclaim In Every City And Town, Every Village And Every Rural Schoolhouse, The Dedication Of Our Nation And Our People To The Almighty. In This Way We Shall Constantly Strengthen Those Spiritual Weapons Which Forever Will Be Our Country's Most Powerful Resource In Peace And War.

Our American Heritage Is Threatened As Much By Our Own Indifference As It Is By The Most Unscrupulous Office Or By The Most Powerful Foreign Threat. The Future Of This Republic Is In The Hands Of The American Voter.

The National Government Was Itself The Creature Of The States...yet Today It Is Often Made To Appear That The Creature, Frankenstein-like, Is Determined To Destroy The Creators.

There Can Be No Peace Without Law.

A Sense Of Humor Is Part Of The Art Of Leadership, Of Getting Along With People, Of Getting Things Done.

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

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.

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

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