Dwight Eisenhower actually said...

"I think this gives me just an appropriate chance to say something about the appreciation I have of the services of the good public servant."

"Thank you, ladies and gentlemen--each of you--for coming out this morning, to give me a chance to say to you 'thank you,' and to greet you in this fashion."

"Someone told me that there was only one speech you could make in this town, which was quite long ago, that the good Lord could have made a better place than Lancaster, but he didn't."

"It reminded me of the war--a great group of soldiers standing out here would have thought there was an awful lot of brass coming around the corner."