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A quotation from Eisenhower

   The way chosen by the United States was plainly marked by a few clear precepts, which govern its conduct in world affairs.
   First: No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice.
   Second: No nation’s security and well-being can be lastingly achieved in isolation but only in effective cooperation with fellow-nations.
   Third: Any nation’s right to form of government and an economic system of its own choosing is inalienable.
   Fourth: Any nation’s attempt to dictate to other nations their form of government is indefensible.
   And fifth: A nation’s hope of lasting peace cannot be firmly based upon any race in armaments but rather upon just relations and honest understanding with all other nations.
   In the light of these principles the citizens of the United States defined the way they proposed to follow, through the aftermath of war, toward true peace.

Dwight David Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general, US President (1953–61)
Speech (1953-04-16), “The Chance for Peace,” American Society of Newspaper Editors, Hotel Statler, New York City

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A quotation from Eisenhower

Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 143,000,000 followers, it will no longer be America. Truly American leadership is not of any one man. It is of multitudes of men — and women.

Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) American general, US President (1953-61)
Essay (1948-10), “An Open Letter to America’s Students,” Reader’s Digest

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