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5. Choose your Favorite Eisenhower Quote
Question: Which of Eisenhower’s words are the most meaningful to you? Please mark no more than four quotations that you feel are particularly important or powerful and/or add your own.
"I come from the very heart of America."
- Guildhall Speech, London, June 14, 1945
"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."
- Speech at Canada Club, Ottawa, Canada, January 10, 1946
“Every nation is neighbor to all mankind.”
- American Alumni Association, Amherst, Massachusetts, July 11, 1946
“To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.”
- Columbia University Inaugural Address, October 12, 1948
“No nation’s security and well-being can be lastingly achieved in isolation but only in effective cooperation with fellow-nations.”
- Address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1953
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”
- Address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1953
“The munitions of peace are justice, honesty, mutual understanding, and respect for others.”
- Address at the Tenth Anniversary of the United Nations, June 20, 1955
“There can be no enduring peace for any nation while other nations suffer privation, oppression, and a sense of injustice and despair.”
- Nomination Acceptance Speech, August 23, 1956
“If civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of law.”
- Presidential Statement in Observation of Law Day, April 30, 1958
“Every human being is capable of greatness.”
- Address by the President in Sao Paulo, Brazil, February 25, 1960
“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”
- Farewell Address, January 17, 1961
“The dedicated teacher is possibly the most important individual in our modern world.”
- Stockholm, Sweden, July 31, 1962
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