"I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

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"I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?"

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"America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still."

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"He is not someone who went off to play in Europe and only a few Americans follow. He has the potential to be on magazine covers and more newspaper coverage."

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"Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies."

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"America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still."

"I was on the state board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union."

"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."

"The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves."

"I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced."

"Dick Moss, my agent. Dick became my agent in 1979 when I signed my contract with the Houston Astros."

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"I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare."

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"I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone."

"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."

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