Americans, indeed all free men, remember that in the final choice a soldier’s pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner’s chains. First Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953 You have broader considerations that might follow what you would call the falling domino principle. You have a row of dominoes set up, you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is the certainty that it will go over very quickly. Explanation as to why Indochina would not be allowed to fall to the communists, April 7, 1954 Dwight D. Eisenhower
