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“Not making the baseball team at West Point was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest.”

Quote by Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.”

Knows World Liberty Sacrifice Bitter Vigilance Free World

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“The gravity of the time is such that every new avenue of peace, no matter how dimly discernible, should be explored.”

Should Matter Gravity Avenues

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“There must be justice, sensed and shared by all peoples, for, without justice the world can know only a tense and unstable truce.”

Knows World Justice Tense Unstable Truce

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957

“We are so proud of our guarantees of freedom in thought and speech and worship, that, unconsciously, we are guilty of one of the greatest errors that ignorance can make - we assume our standard of values is shared by all other humans in the world.”

World Humans Values Ignorance Proud Speech Worship Standards Assuming Errors Guilty Guarantees

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“We face a hostile ideology global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose and insidious in method.”

Character Faces Purpose Method Ideology Hostile Scope Ruthless Atheistic Insidious

Book:The Military-Industrial Complex: With an Introduction by Jesse Smith

Source: The Military-Industrial Complex: With an Introduction by Jesse Smith

“We have got to fight it [Communism] with something better, not try to conceal the thinking of our own people. They are part of America. And even if they think ideas that are contrary to ours, their right to say them, their right to record them, and their right to have them at places where they are accessible to others is unquestioned, or it isn't America.”

People Ifs Thinking Trying Ideas America Fighting Records Contrary Communism Something Better

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“We have the disgrace of racial discrimination, or we have prejudice against people because of their religion. We have not had the courage to uproot these things, although we know they are wrong.”

People Knows Prejudice Discrimination Disgrace Racial Discrimination

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.”

Want Democracy Generations Tomorrow Farewell Phantoms Military Industrial Complex Farewell Address

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“At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom.”

Men Fate Shapes Turning Points Unending Voting Rights Act

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“For the individual, education is the path to achievement and fulfillment; for the nation, it is a path to a society that is not only free but civilized; and for the world, it is the path to peace - for it is education that places reason over force.”

World Reason Individual Force Nations Path Achievement Fulfillment Civilized

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966