Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Dwight David Eisenhower (born David Dwight Eisenhower; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was the 34th president of the United States, serving from 1953 to 1961. A member of the Republican Party, he was renowned as a World War II general who commanded Allied forces in Operation Torch and...

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The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

If you're at school and you're not that bright or good-looking or popular or whatever, and one day you say something and someone laughs, well, you sort of grab onto it, don't you? you think, well I run funny and I've got this stupid big face and big thighs and no-one fancies me, but at least I can make people laugh. And It's such a nice feeling, making someone laugh, that maybe you get a bit reliant on it. Like, if you're not funny then you're not… anything.

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book…

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

—Ambrose Bierce

There is hardly a political question in the United States which doesn't sooner or later turn into a judicial one.

—Alexis de Tocqueville

The moment a man gets money, so many men are trying to get it away from him that in a little while he regards the whole human race as his enemy, and he generally thinks that they could be rich too if they would only attend to business as he has. Understand, I am not blaming these people.… We must remember that these rich men are naturally produced. Do not blame them. Blame the system.

—Robert Ingersoll

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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

—George Bernard Shaw

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