“There are three constants in life… Change, Choice and Principles.”
“Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.”
Address at the Cow Palace on Accepting the Nomination of the Republican National Convention (August 23, 1956). Source: Eisenhower Presidential Library. Archived https://web.archive.org/web/20210125121539/https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/eisenhowers/quotes from the original https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/eisenhowers/quotes on Janunary 25, 2021.
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