Dwight Eisenhower actually said...

"The scientists themselves are all agreed as to what now must be done and they are pushing it to do it."

"I think some of you people know, you might say, the constitutional limitations that are on the President in this country from going away and staying as long as he pleases."

"It has been a record of stability in these last months."

"But change, in the leisurely days of the past, was gradual and evolutionary; the armies of Napoleon moved across Western Europe with no more speed than those of Caesar, his predecessor by eighteen cen..."