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Dwight Eisenhower

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"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 their way and let them have it."	War & Peace
"I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the Presidency."	Politics
"I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone."	Leadership
"If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution."	War & Peace
"If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order."	Politics, War & Peace
"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom."	Freedom
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex."	Government
"In the counsels of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes."	Government
"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."	Leadership
"Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him."	Time
"Only Americans can hurt America."	America
"Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin."	Justice, War & Peace
"Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one."	Politics
"Speeches are for the younger men who are going places. And I'm not going anyplace except six feet under the floor of that little chapel adjoining the museum and library at Abilene."	Miscellaneous
"The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you."	Miscellaneous
"The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice -- their choice."	Freedom
"The only way to win World War III is to prevent it."	War & Peace
"The president cannot escape from his office."	Presidency
"The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionable integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office."	Leadership
"The world moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good."	Ideas

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