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“Dans les débats du gouvernement, nous devons prendre soin que le bloc des militaires et des industriels n'acquière, même sans le vouloir, une influence exagérée. L'accroissement dangereux d'un pouvoir illégal est une possibilité qui existe et existera toujours. Ne permettons jamais que cette condition compromette les libertés et les méthodes de notre démocratie.”

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Discours du 17 janvier 1961 .

liberté , démocratie

Dwight D. Eisenhower: Citations en anglais

“Men like these—men by the millions—have deepened and defined our very understanding of what is true and just in the wide world from which they came. We know—as our forefathers knew—the firm ground on which our beliefs must stand. Freedom is rooted in the certainty that the brotherhood of all men springs from the Fatherhood of God. And thus, even as each man is his brother’s keeper, no man is another’s master.”

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1950s, Address at the Philadelphia Convention Hall (1956)

“Oh, goddammit, we forgot the silent prayer.”

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Remark at a cabinet meeting, as quoted in Since 1945 : Politics and Diplomacy in Recent American History (1979) by Robert A. Divine, p. 55
1950s

“This is something, eh, that is the kind of thing that must be gone through with what I believe is best not talked about too much until we know whatever answers there will be.”

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Response to questions about the investigation of Robert Oppenheimer's supposed Communist sympathies
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States. Dwight D. Eisenhower (1954), p. 435
Cited in [Brendon, Piers, Ike: His Life & Times, 1st edition, 1986, Harper & Row, New York, ISBN 0-06-015508-6, p. 270 of 478, The Dawn of Tranquility]
1950s

“The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.”

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Speech at Williamsburg College http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/education/bsa/citizenship_merit_badge/eisenhower_citizenship_quotations.pdf (15 May 1953)
1950s

“This we do know: a world that begins to witness the rebirth of trust among nations can find its way to a peace that is neither partial nor punitive. With all who will work in good faith toward such a peace, we are ready, with renewed resolve, to strive to redeem the near-lost hopes of our day.”

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1950s, The Chance for Peace (1953)

“The John Birch Society is a good, patriotic society. I don't agree with what its founder said about me, but that does not detract from the fact that its membership is comprised of many fine Americans dedicated to the preservation of our libertarian Republic.”

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Reported in an editorial in the Alton Evening Telegraph (July 14,1964), A-4; appeared in a display ad in the Los Angeles Times (September 27, 1964), D14. Reported as misattributed in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 24, stating that an aide of Eisenhower's had denied that Eisenhower had made the remark.
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“The general limits of your freedom are merely these: that you do not trespass upon the equal rights of others.”

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Remarks to the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/education/bsa/citizenship_merit_badge/eisenhower_citizenship_quotations.pdf (22 April 1954)
1950s

“The chief of staff says I'm the guy.”

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Journal entry after being informed by George Marshall that he would be in command of Operation Overlord, as quoted in Eisenhower : A Soldier's Life (2003) by Carlo D'Este, p. 307
1940s

“We have erased segregation in those areas of national life to which Federal authority clearly extends. So doing in this, my friends, we have neither sought nor claimed partisan credit, and all such actions are nothing more -- nothing less than the rendering of justice. And we have always been aware of this great truth: the final battle against intolerance is to be fought -- not in the chambers of any legislature -- but in the hearts of men.”

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Address at the Hollywood Bowl http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/all_about_ike/quotes.html (19 October 1956)
1950s

“I would be prepared to submit to the Congress of the United States, and with every expectation of approval, any such plan that would, first, encourage world-wide investigation into the most effective peacetime uses of fissionable material, and with the certainty that the investigators had all the material needed for the conducting of all experiments that were appropriate; second, begin to diminish the potential destructive power of the world's atomic stockpiles; third, allow all peoples of all nations to see that, in this enlightened age, the great Powers of the earth, both of the East and of the West, are interested in human aspirations first rather than in building up the armaments of war; fourth, open up a new channel for peaceful discussion and initiative at least a new approach to the many difficult problems that must be solved in both private and public conversations if the world is to shake off the inertia imposed by fear and is to make positive progress towards peace.”

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1950s, Atoms for Peace (1953)

“The Founders conceived government as the servant, not the master of the individual.”

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Remarks to the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/education/bsa/citizenship_merit_badge/speeches/address_convention_hall.pdf (31 January 1962)
1960s

“The government in Washington belongs to you.”

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Remarks to the National Industrial Conference Board http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/education/bsa/citizenship_merit_badge/speeches/address_convention_hall.pdf (20 May 1965)
1960s

“I believe that the United States as a government, if it is going to be true to its own founding documents, does have the job of working toward that time when there is no discrimination made on such inconsequential reason as race, color, or religion.”

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Presidential news conference http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/all_about_ike/quotes.html (13 May 1959)
1950s

“No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice. … No nation's security and well-being can be lastingly achieved in isolation but only in effective cooperation with fellow-nations.”

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1950s, The Chance for Peace (1953)

“We are so proud of our guarantees of freedom in thought and speech and worship, that, unconsciously, we are guilty of one of the greatest errors that ignorance can make — we assume our standard of values is shared by all other humans in the world.”

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As quoted in Strategies of Containment : A Critical Appraisal of Post-war American National Security Policy (1982) by John Lewis Gaddis
1960s

“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.”

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State of the Union Address to Congress http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/avwebsite/PDF/54text.pdf (7 January 1954)
1950s

“The freedom of the individual and his willingness to follow real leadership are at the core of America’s strength.”

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Address at Norwich University http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/education/bsa/citizenship_merit_badge/eisenhower_citizenship_quotations.pdf, Northfield, Vermont (9 June 1946)
1940s

“To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.”

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Columbia University Inaugural Address http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/education/bsa/citizenship_merit_badge/eisenhower_citizenship_quotations.pdf (12 October 1948)
1940s

“I share the sense of shock and dismay that the entire nation must feel at the despicable act that took the life of the nation's president. On the personal side, Mrs. Eisenhower and I share the grief that Mrs. Kennedy must now feel. We send to her our prayerful thoughts and sympathetic sentiments in this hour.”

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Televised statement upon the assassination of President John F. Kennedy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyGzVQGgdqw, (22 November 1963)
1960s

“The proudest human that walks the earth is a free American citizen.”

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Talk at the Commercial Club of Chicago http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/education/bsa/citizenship_merit_badge/eisenhower_citizenship_quotations.pdf (21 May 1948)
1940s

“It is unwise to make education too cheap. If everything is provided freely, there is a tendency to put no value on anything. Education must always have a certain price on it; even as the very process of learning itself must always require individual effort and initiative.”

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Address at the Centennial Celebration Banquet of the National Education Association http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/all_about_ike/quotes.html (4 April 1957)
1950s

“Of these greater things I speak to you tonight. It seems to me right to do so here, in Philadelphia, where our forefathers defined the principles by which our nation was born and has ever lived.”

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1950s, Address at the Philadelphia Convention Hall (1956)

“In June of 1776, Richard Henry Lee, rising before the Continental Congress to move his resolution for American independence, declared: “The eyes of Europe are fixed upon us; she demands of us a living example of freedom.””

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1950s, Address at the Philadelphia Convention Hall (1956)

“The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength — and strength alone.”

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A speech at an English Speaking Union Dinner (3 July 1951). It is currently on display on the wall of Eisenhower Hall at the USMA at West Point in New York. Eisenhower Memorial Commission http://www.eisenhowermemorial.org/speeches/19510703%20English%20Speaking%20Union%20Dinner.htm
1950s

“You just can't have this kind of war. There aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.”

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In 1957, as quoted in No Use: Nuclear Weapons and U.S. National Security https://books.google.com/books?id=Y_klAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA91&lpg=PA91&dq=%22there+aren%27t+enough+bulldozers+to+scrape+the+bodies+off+the+streets%22&source=bl&ots=g2f8x1zwaq&sig=JxpjSjWSWqsTKHpxnfAjjmW2ibU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAmoVChMI6cCQsa6SxgIVAWitCh3TUwty#v=onepage&q=%22there%20aren't%20enough%20bulldozers%20to%20scrape%20the%20bodies%20off%20the%20streets%22&f=false, by Thomas M. Nichols.
1950s

“We believe in the principle that governments are properly established only when it is with the consent of the governed.”

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Remarks to American Field Service Students http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/education/bsa/citizenship_merit_badge/speeches/address_convention_hall.pdf (15 July 1958)
1950s