Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
From Dwight D. Eisenhower
Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.
Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
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.
The sergeant is the Army.
Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.
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