Eisenhower

We are not considering legislative controls on the processes in our economy.

Laws presumably express the conscience of a nation and its determination or will to do something.

There is no regret on my part.

We have spent many, many millions of dollars, as have other nations.

I want to say a word again about this thing of mutual security.

Naturally you want to give a tax cut if you can, because I believe it will loosen up the economy in certain directions and have a good effect.

I have come to believe that a very fine and adequate defense for the United States can at present prices be sustained with an expenditure program, if it can be planned in advance, at about 38 billion dollars.

I am proud to say very heavy Republican support, but it was done and studied thoroughly and passed.

My speaking will be always on this subject, as I have always done, urging Americans to recognize what America is.

I don't see any particularly constructive step that we can take at this moment.

If we are really to do our full part in combating communism, we must as a unit stand not only ready as Magsaysay did to bare his breast to the bayonet, but to work day by day for the betterment--the spiritual, moral, intellectual and…

He understood that freedom is not possible to sustain, unless there is some economic base--some way of allowing a man to gain his self-respect through earning his own living.

This Magsaysay did, and in this I believe is his true greatness, the kind of greatness that will be remembered long after any words we can speak here will have been forgotten.

It is indeed a very great and distinct privilege to join so many distinguished guests in honoring a true champion of liberty.

Liberty was impossible to sustain unless you made it possible for the people to grow that rice--to have a better living--to gain some kind of education--to get doctors into the barrios and out into the hinterland where none had ever…

Those casualties were required from us in order to support our security in the world and to stand firmly behind the cause of freedom.

I most earnestly hope that the Congress will support this particular part of the bill to the full.

I said that of course none of us would like to see the need for a special session of Congress.

However, as you people well know, I don't think that any of you ought to interpret anything I say in terms of a threat of any kind.

I signed this with really the prayerful hope that we may be able, with that amount, to sustain the essential interests of the United States in the free world.

You cannot stand aside and see America's interest deteriorate throughout the world just by inaction.

I believe that under the circumstances existing at the time that war began, the war was necessary.

I think, ladies and gentlemen, that this is the first time I have asked you into an impromptu press conference.

Part of it is accounted for by rises in food prices; and I said, after all, we have now policies to try to raise these prices, at least as far as the farmer is concerned.

I think we would be glad to ask any nation there to put its proper instruments in the air to detect whether or not their contention is true.