Hailing from the plains of Kansas, he certainly became a great general. The more I read about him, I appreciate his words:
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
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How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?

Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
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