682 – “We are not isolationists. Intelligent people are not isolationists. We are a part of the great civilization of this world at this moment, and every part of the world where a similar civilization prevails is a part of us.”

–Dwight Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States of America

656 – Eisenhower’s Kinship Among Nations Quote

“Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age. Rather we should turn to those inner things — call them what you will — I mean those intangibles that are the real treasures free men possess. To preserve his freedom of worship, his equality before law, his liberty to speak and act as he sees fit, subject only to provisions that he trespass not upon similar rights of others….”

–Dwight Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States of America

29 years ago today, in 1989, Mauerfall began when East and West Berliners joined together and began dismantling the Berlin Wall, which would eventually lead to the fall of the Iron Curtain and preceded the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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462 – “I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its stupidity.”

–Dwight Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States of America

318 – “War is mankind’s most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.”

–Dwight Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States of America