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Eisenhower: Unless there is this understanding developed in our institutions of learning, and unless that understanding is related…

On the recordOctober 19, 1954
Unless there is this understanding developed in our institutions of learning, and unless that understanding is related to the truth, of the essentially spiritual character of man with his spiritual longings and aspirations, we cannot do our duty by ourselves or to those to whom it is our duty to pass on this civilization and this country of ours.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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Remarks at the Trinity College Convocation, Hartford, Connecticut

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