Dwight Eisenhower actually said...

For politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

Context

Address Recorded for the Republican Lincoln Day Dinners

01/27/1954

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