Dwight David Eisenhower

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"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."	Miscellaneous
"As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence."	Freedom, Honesty, Liberty
"Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed."	Books
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."	Age, Guns, Military
"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field."	Miscellaneous
"From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard."	Miscellaneous
"From this day forward, the millions of our schoolchildren will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty." (On signing law for inclusion of the words 'under God' in the Pledge of Allegiance, 14 Jun 54)"	Age, Education, Law
"Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."	Acceptance, America, Honesty
"Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends."	Friends, Men, Military
"I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference." (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School)"	Education, Intentions, Law
"I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built." (On construction of reviewing stands for inauguration of his successor John F Kennedy)"	Age, Success
"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."	Age, Death, Life
"I have found out in later years [that] we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then."	America, Glory, Knowledge
"I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem-and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?"	America, Evil
"I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it."	Desires, Government, Men
"Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him."	Courage, History, Knowledge
"No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know."	Age, Knowledge, Time
"Oh, that lovely title, ex-president."	Love
"Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together."	Ability, Adversity, Difficulty
"Our pleasures were simple-they included survival."	Miscellaneous
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Ability	Acceptance	Adversity
Age	America	Argument
Art	Books	Conflict
Courage	Death	Desires
Difficulty	Education	Evil
Excellence	Faith	Football
Freedom	Friends	Glory
Goals	Government	Guns
Happiness	History	Honesty
Hope	Intelligence	Intentions
Joy	Knowledge	Law
Leadership	Learning	Liberty
Lies	Life	Love
Loyalty	Men	Military
Miscellaneous	Monarchy	Peace
Reading	School	Sin
Sorrow	Stupidity	Success
Teaching	Time	Truth
Wants	War	Wisdom
Wishing	Women