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Eisenhower: “But change, in the leisurely days of the past, was gradual and evolutionary; the armies of Napoleon moved across Western…”

On the recordJune 6, 1955
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 centuries.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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Address at the Graduation Ceremonies, United States Military Academy, West Point, New York

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