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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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GROVER CLEVELAND Once he makes up his mind, he's full of indecision. On Dwight D. Eisenhower OSCAR LEVANT Once he makes up his mind, he's full of indecision. [On Dwight D. Eisenhower] OSCAR LEVANT Right and wrong will be a part of it. Is this a behavior we ought to protect or we ought to cure? I ... JOSEPH FUITEN Those who already walk submissively will say there is no cause for alarm. But submissiveness is not ... WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and ... DAVID R. BROWER The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of... AL FRANKEN Judges are the people who have to protect the rights of individuals, have to protect the rights of m... JED S. RAKOFF I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... and other people would be also fr... ROSA PARKS There is a block on the Supreme Court, that I think would be confirmed if we are not successful in t... HILLARY CLINTON Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty. BRIAN JACQUES In today's politics, it would be good to have politicians who are more upfront about what they f... JIM BROADBENT No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any govern... NOAH WEBSTER Free speech is a valuable commodity, which we preserve and protect, but there quite rightly is restr... DENIS NAPTHINE 'Intel, Leap Ahead,' is a simple expression that declares who we are and what we do. This is part of... ERIC KIM 'Intel. Leap ahead.' is a simple expression that declares who we are and what we do. This is part of... ERIC KIM [Many Founding Fathers wrote extensively on the subject. Thomas Jefferson said,] What country can pr... GEORGE WASHINGTON I am quite convinced that if (U.S. President Dwight) Eisenhower were to come back today he would hav... ANATOL LIEVEN It is the job of our military to protect America and to hunt down and kill those who would threaten ... TED CRUZ The perfect life would be to have an amazing part every year and to spend all my free time to just w... MELANIE LAURENT The right to vote is the foundation of our democracy, and an essential protection of that right is t... CAROLINE FREDRICKSON I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind.... GAUTAMA BUDDHA The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS The oak has long been an enduring and mighty tree. It is truly a part of our national heritage and i... BOB GOODLATTE God is my only leader. Truth is my only sword. Guided only by my conscience, I am a true citizen of ... SUZY KASSEM If courtesans and strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much rigor as some silly people would have... BERNARD MANDEVILLE Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH There is only one rule of law in our country, which provides rights and security for every citizen. THERESA MAY A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic,... STEVE BERRY Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER What's important about what we're doing is, we're helping protect America. We provide for safe custo... JAY HOOD Over time, it is all too common for people to lose touch with their heritage, as the thrill and imme... ERIC JAY DOLIN There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work out dr... FLANNERY O'CONNOR At a book festival in Fort Lauderdale, I met David Eisenhower, Ike's grandson, who was promoting... JANE LEAVY The Doctor: This is bad, I don't like this. [kicks console and yells in pain] Never use force, you j... STEVEN MOFFAT People were floored when they saw that the underwear bomber, after less than 50 minutes of interroga... MICHELE BACHMANN I hope people don't . . . play politics during this period of time. This is a natural disaster – t... MR BUSH We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art. MUHAMMAD HIJAZI National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust a... AL FRANKEN And what good is a voice when so few will listen? STACEY JAY Who knows - I would like to think that I'd be a fantastic president, and I'd be extremely le... ADAM RAYNER It's not our job to choose the best Sunday school teacher, like Jimmy Carter was. It's our j... JERRY FALWELL, JR. The idea that the law should punish what is rude; that government should protect our tender sensibil... NICK HARKAWAY The Sixties are most generously described as a time when people took part - when they stepped out of... GREIL MARCUS The oak has long been an enduring and mighty tree. It is truly a part of our national heritage and i... BOB GOODLATTE Some people ask: “Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or s... CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE That would be a good time for people to make donations to the Red Cross or United Way in memory of t... JUDY WHITE It is part of our heritage and part of the landscape. PAUL ALLEN some of the areas of concern which pose a substantial threat to free speech and free association rig... JAMES BOPP European-Americans now have the National Organization for European American Rights, to actively defe... DAVID DUKE Your most precious memories will focus on those you loved, those who loved you, and what you did tog... JAMES C. DOBSON Women ought to be fully guarded by law in all rights of property, labor, profession, etc.; but, roug... JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY In truth, Kipling's politics are not mine. But then, it would be a poor sort of world if one were on... NEIL GAIMAN I think lawyers who engage in pro bono service to protect those who cannot help themselves are truly... JANET RENO Certainly, my hope is that [the looting] wouldn't keep people from giving their time and their money... CAROL STEVENS The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect... JEFF COOPER I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also fre... ROSA PARKS We refused to be what the world want us to be- BAD. We are what we are- GOOD. And that's the way it ... NURUDEEN USHAWU Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large ... DOUGLAS ADAMS Pastor Smith did not have the religious constitution needed to provide salvation for any of us who�... CHERYL R COWTAN The people who know me and know the values I stand for ... know I've always fought to protect the ri... BRUCE BRALEY In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH God created us in his image, male and female, with personhood and sexual passions, so that when he c... JOHN PIPER Who are we if not the stories we pass down? What happens when there's no one left to tell those stor... CARRIE RYAN Anger - a beast within us that needs taming. SARU SINGHAL Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision. OSCAR LEVANT Of course, Dwight D. Eisenhower gets credit for doing more for golf than any other White House resid... DAN JENKINS We seek the right to play our part in advancing the cause of national defense and national unity. Bu... A. PHILIP RANDOLPH Because of Jesus’ supposed predestination, God would have had to choose the people who would kill ... DAVID G. MCAFEE Rose: 'If you are an alien, how come you sound like you're from the north?' Doctor: 'Lots of pl... RUSSELL T. DAVIES The moment I said I'd finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, a... J. K. ROWLING Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom of her soul – had she ever intended to do... THOMAS HARDY People would rather be equal thank free. LJUPKA CVETANOVA Our constitution should be inspired by the philosophy of the Koran with principles that are set in s... BASMAH BINT SAUD It is time for our elected officials to invest in Texas' natural heritage and to provide the plannin... LUKE METZGER In every civilized society, there is an established institution put in place to design laws that mak... SUNDAY ADELAJA I am a person who believes in the good of people and who may have had things influence them to a cer... NOLAN NORTH One has to understand that equality ends up by infiltrating the world of politics as it does everywh... ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE The same liberties that ensure a free society make the innocent vulnerable to those who prevent righ... HARRIET E. MIERS Opposition to this nomination will be based on nothing but partisan politics, and would be an unfort... BRIAN MCCABE The choice before us is plain: Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegrati... , ON BEING ELECTED CHAPLAIN OF THE U. S. SENATE IN JANUARY 1947 We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead... EAMON DE VALERA I still believe that, with Savoy being part of the community, it ought to be part of the MTD, ... I ... GEORGE FRIEDMAN The most significant civil rights problem is voting. Each citizen's right to vote is fundamental... ROBERT KENNEDY This is an enormous burden to impose on our taxpayers, who would be responsible for paying the refun... HOWARD WEITZMAN Every time I would give a talk, someone would say, 'You ought to go into politics.' I prefer... BRAD WENSTRUP The job of the government isn't to go around and try and make people sacrifice, it's to try ... GROVER NORQUIST If in barbed wire things can bloom, why couldn't I? I will not die, I will not die. FRIEDL AND THE CHILDREN OF TEREZIN The people who want to push for the end of legalized sports gambling in Nevada would be encouraging ... DICK DAVIES I'd never rule anything out, to be honest with you, whether it be the small of volunteer status ... VANCE MCALLISTER The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON
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EISENHOWER Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth li... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice! DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so m... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last on... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good fo... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for Ame... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process w... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, ... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvatio... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care w... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate l... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months.... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER One day the people of the world will want peace so much that the governments will have to get o... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. ... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon o... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experien... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to l... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned an... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, wheth... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her cit... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER The sergeant is the Army. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER