Eisenhower: “Your own property, your own security, your own opportunity, your own…”

On the recordOctober 14, 1953

Your own property, your own security, your own opportunity, your own liberties, they must be earned-they cannot be bestowed upon you.

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Republican · Kansas

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Address at the Annual Convention of the Future Farmers of America, Kansas City, Missouri

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Eisenhower: “Your own property, your own security, your own opportunity, your own liberties, they must be earned-they cannot be…”