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Eisenhower

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Dwight D. Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, serving from 1953 to 1961. A member of the Republican Party, he was born in Kansas and rose to prominence as a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II. Eisenhower served as the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe, overseeing the successful D-Day invasion and the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi control.

Quotes by year · 195319611,836 total · peak 1954 (575)
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Oct 26, 1954

There is just no real alternative to peace, as I tried to express it.

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Oct 26, 1954

I think there will be some little things they can take care of; I mean little in volume, important in the individual cases.

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Oct 26, 1954

If ever I attempt to make foreign policy, basic foreign policy, a partisan issue, I wish one of you people would remind me very forcefully.

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Oct 26, 1954

Far from disenchantment, it is just too much satisfaction from it.

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Oct 26, 1954

Of course, in certain activities it is obvious that secrecy must be maintained, let us say, in the departments that are working out the forecasts of crops for next year, and so on.

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Oct 26, 1954

In the average case, the normal case, for the Associate Justices, I should think it would be a good practice to bring in people who have had real experience on the courts.

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Oct 26, 1954

I believe that America’s success, therefore, over these last 2 years in that foreign field, and at home in going from a war to a peace economy without real depression—which has been customary and historical and is almost expected—those two…

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Oct 26, 1954

The scientists who have come to see me exhibit no such attitude.

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Oct 26, 1954

As a matter of fact, I probably, if I had anything to do with it, would discipline the person that gave you the copy, if I knew them.

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Oct 26, 1954

As far as appropriate time for talking with the Communist authorities, whenever that time is appropriate and we have a reason to believe they are sincere, why, we will talk any time with anyone who wants sincerely to promote peace.

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Oct 26, 1954

One of my reasons that I would really like to get out and sort of dramatize for a day, for 1 day if I can, the need for getting out the vote is sort of to emphasize the importance of this election as well as those when the Presidency is at…

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