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Didereaux Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 07:53 PM
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Quotes from the last known...
Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

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.

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.

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.


All of these quotes were made by the last known Republican with a shred of humanity left...Dwight D. Eisenhower
Today we seem to be approaching the same thing with regards to Democrats.

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/d/dwight_d_eisenhower.html
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 07:58 PM
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1. My favorite Ike quote...
"Now it is true that I believe this country is following a dangerous trend when it permits too great a degree of centralization of governmental functions...The political processes of our country are such that if a rule of reason is not applied in this effort, we will lose everything--even to a possible and drastic change in the Constitution. This is what I mean by my constant insistence upon "moderation" in government. Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are H. L. Hunt (you possibly know his background), a few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid."


http://www.eisenhowermemorial.org/presidential-papers/first-term/documents/1147.cfm
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