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Eisenhower

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Dwight D. Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, serving from 1953 to 1961. A member of the Republican Party, he was born in Kansas and rose to prominence as a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II. Eisenhower served as the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe, overseeing the successful D-Day invasion and the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi control.

Quotes by year · 195319611,836 total · peak 1954 (575)
1953: 350 quotes1954: 575 quotes1955: 357 quotes1956: 136 quotes1957: 143 quotes1958: 118 quotes1959: 93 quotes1960: 57 quotes1961: 7 quotes
Jan 16, 1961

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.

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Jan 16, 1961

The Secretary of the Interior shall keep under review the Imports Into District I, Districts II-IV, and District V of residual fuel oil to be used as fuel.

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Jan 16, 1961

we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.

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Dec 31, 1960

Our unity as a nation is sustained by free communication of thought and by easy transportation of people and goods.

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Dec 23, 1960

I find and declare that adjustments must be made in the imports of crude oil and unfinished oils for overestimates and underestimates of total demand.

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Nov 13, 1960

We shall eventually have a world in which all men are brothers, and in which the outstretched hand is not that of a tyrant, but the hand of friendship.

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Nov 13, 1960

For over six decades we have worked together to create and maintain strong democratic institutions.

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Nov 1, 1960

I feel now it would be futile for me to attempt anything else in the way of words.

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Nov 1, 1960

The kind of leadership we are talking about is: the people that can understand this crowd.

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Nov 1, 1960

The day that we don't have to work, that's the day you will have to call the United States second rate.

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Oct 23, 1960

People must meet and understand other people, and so doing make it ever more difficult for governments, responding to false prides or even worse, personal ambitions, to sustain dictatorships.

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Oct 23, 1960

These things can be done--your part in bringing them to pass will be measured by the intensity of your dedication.

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Sep 29, 1960

It makes no difference for what individual or party you vote, as long as you are voting your own honest convictions.

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Sep 29, 1960

We must not be either patronizing, resentful, or treat them as a stranger or enemy.

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Sep 29, 1960

There has never been a time when the Polish people and Polish fortunes have been absent from the hearts and minds of the American people.

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Sep 29, 1960

The human spirit that must be free is the thing that brings 213 nationalities finally into one single nation.

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Sep 28, 1960

Leadership is not proved by a mere whirling across the public stage in a burst of glib oratory.

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Sep 28, 1960

He has stood firmly on a platform of truth to confound the delegates of the Soviet Union and its satellites.

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