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.
Dwight D Eisenhower
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
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When I was a small boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as we sat there in the warmth of a summer afternoon on a riverbank we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real major league baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.
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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
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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.
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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)
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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)
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There is no victory at bargain basement prices.
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Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book..
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I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem-and that yardstick is Is it good for America
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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.
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