"The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, addressing the troops on D-Day, June 6, 1944 "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, 1953 "I won't get into a pissing contest with that skunk." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, speaking to his brother Milton, refusing to enter into a public confrontation with Senator Joseph R. McCarthy "You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954 (speaking about the battle of Dien Bien Phu in which the French were defeated by the communist Vietminh) "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced powers exists and will persist." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, farewell address, January 1961

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