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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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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

Editor's note · Context

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

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