Dwight Eisenhower actually said...

"But the bill, on the whole, as it came out of the committee represented a tremendous advance over anything we had ever had."

"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..."

"This should generate neither a despairing belief that the tide of events is beyond human control nor an apathetic acceptance that human ability is not equal to the immense problems newly arisen."