"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

American, America

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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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"Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age."

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