“The history of free men is never really written by chance - but by choice. Their choice.”

—  Dwight D. Eisenhower

Address in Pittsburgh http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/education/bsa/citizenship_merit_badge/eisenhower_citizenship_quotations.pdf (9 October 1956)
1950s

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American general and politician, 34th president of the Unit… 1890–1969

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