Political Quotes

On the recordJanuary 3, 1954
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.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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

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