"I was raised in a little town of which most of you have never heard. It was: always take your job seriously, never yourself."Īddress at the New England "Forward to '54" Dinner, Boston, Massachusetts, 9/21/53 "Thank goodness, many years ago, I had a preceptor, for whom my admiration has never died, and he had a favorite saying, one that I trust I try to live by. "There is - in world affairs - a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly." "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." ![]() "For history does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid." Inaugural Address, Washington, DC, 1/20/53 "Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America." Homecoming Speech, Abilene, Kansas, 6/22/45 ![]() "The proudest thing I can claim is that I am from Abilene."
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