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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Source/Notes: Selected speeches of Dwight David Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States: selected from the three principal periods of his life: as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during the war years, as Supreme NATO Commander [and] as President (1970 edition)

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

“An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.”

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“Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“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.”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Source/Notes: In review: pictures I've kept: a concise pictorial autobiography (1969 edition)

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“Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“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.”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Source/Notes: State of the Union Address to Congress (7 January 1954) - Presidency

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Source/Notes: Dwight D. Eisenhower: containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President, 1953-61 (1960 edition)

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

“History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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