2. “The United States never lost a
soldier or a foot of ground in
my administration. We kept
the peace. People asked how
it happened – by God, it
didn’t just happen, I’ll tell you
that.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
34. “They [white southerners] are
not bad people. All they are
concerned about is…that
their sweet little girls are not
required to sit in school
alongside some big
overgrown Negroes.”
62. “[E]very 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….
63. The cost of one modern heavy
bomber is this: a modern brick
school in more than 30 cities.”
– Eisenhower’s Farewell Address
