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Dwight D. Eisenhower

"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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"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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"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."

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"Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow."
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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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"This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect."
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"We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it."
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"There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home."
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"You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership."
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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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"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."
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"Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative."
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