American - President | October 14, 1890 - March 28, 1969
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
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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.
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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.
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If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.
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Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
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Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
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We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
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Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.
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Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.
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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.
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