American - President | October 14, 1890 - March 28, 1969
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
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The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it to them.
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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.
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Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
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Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.
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I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.
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I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.
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I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.
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Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.
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I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.
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Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?
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