Political Quotes

Eisenhower: “While it is true today that my party and I are here on a special kind of fact-gathering trip, always in any kind of trip…”

On the recordSeptember 3, 1954
While it is true today that my party and I are here on a special kind of fact-gathering trip, always in any kind of trip it is that need we feel, to get out again and to see Americans in their own homes, and in their own cities, making this country what it is.
Said by
Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the Airport, McCook, Nebraska

Share

More from Eisenhower

Dec 31, 1960

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

congress.gov
Nov 13, 1960

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

presidency.ucsb.edu
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.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Jan 16, 1961

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

thenation.com

Other voices in this conversation