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Own Quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.
- Our American heritage is threatened as much by our own indifference as it is by the most unscrupulous office or by the most powerful foreign…
- We ... must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow.
- To be true to one's own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others.
- And I should like to assure you, my Islamic friends, that under the American Constitution, under American tradition, and in American hearts, this Center, this…
- There is a kind of dictatorship that can come about through a creeping paralysis of thought, readiness to accept paternalistic measures by government, and along…
- The system is not intended as a substitute for private savings, pension plans, and insurance protection. It is, rather, intended as the foundation upon which…
- And they can appreciate, through personal experience, that the really decisive battleground of American freedom is in the hearts and minds of our own people...The…
- Our arms must be mighty ... ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction
- The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
- As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering…
- Knowledge-full, unfettered knowledge of its own heritage, of freedom's enemies, of the whole world of men and ideas-this knowledge is a free people's surest strength.
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