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| Dwight D. Eisenhower
'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use. A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. An atheist is a guy who watches a Notre Dame-SMU football game and doesn't care who wins. An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God. Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative. 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. 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. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens. I don't attempt to be a poker player before this crowd. 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. I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone. If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it. If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution. If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order. In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains. It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger. Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. Only by trusting in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose. Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well. Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one. Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. 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. The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy. The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield. The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion. The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth. The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home. There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were. Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign. This is what I found out about religion: it gives you the courage to make the decisions you must make in a crisis, and then the confidence to leave the result to a higher power. 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. We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective. Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you? What counts is not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog. When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept. |
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