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I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969
- War & Peace
Only Americans can hurt America.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969
There is one thing about being President — nobody can tell you when to sit down.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969
- Presidency
The president cannot escape from his office.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969
- Presidency
Now this conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969Dwight Eisenhower’s Farewell Address (1961)
- War & Peace
We have not taken and we shall not take a single backward step. There must be no second class citizens in this country.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969Letter to Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (June 6, 1953)
- Justice
United States! Go put your creed into your deed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882May-Day and Other Pieces (1867), Ode, st. 5
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Concord Hymn (1837)In context
- History
There are no second acts in American lives.
F. Scott Fitzgerald1896–1940The Last Tycoon, “Hollywood, ETC.,” ed. Edmund Wilson (1941)
My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.
Our Constitution works; our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here the people rule.
Gerald Ford1913–2006Our Long National Nightmare Is Over (1974)
- Government
I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, and so I ask you to confirm me as your President with your prayers.
Gerald Ford1913–2006Our Long National Nightmare Is Over (1974)
- Prayer
- Presidency
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790
America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
Sigmund Freud1856–1939
America is a mistake, a giant mistake.
Sigmund Freud1856–1939
The land was ours before we were the land’s.
She was our land more than a hundred years
Before we were her people.
Robert Frost1874–1963“The Gift Outright”, originally recited it at the College of William & Mary in 1941; first published in the Virginia Quarterly Review (Spring 1942)