Dwight Eisenhower actually said...

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.

Context

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

06/06/1955

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