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We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

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There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.

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I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.

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You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

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While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.

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One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

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You've got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you've got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

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When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.

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I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

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The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: August 27th, 1908

Died: January 22nd, 1973

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