Dwight Eisenhower actually said...

We know that an informed and alert people is the backbone of the free system in which this Republic was conceived and under which it has so greatly prospered.

Context

Radio and Television Address to the American People on the Administration's Purposes and Accomplishments.

01/03/1954

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