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Eisenhower

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Dwight D. Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, serving from 1953 to 1961. A member of the Republican Party, he was born in Kansas and rose to prominence as a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II. Eisenhower served as the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe, overseeing the successful D-Day invasion and the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi control.

Quotes by year · 195319611,836 total · peak 1954 (575)
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Oct 27, 1953

I don't see why I have to take an extremist view on this thing.

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Oct 27, 1953

For Mrs. Eisenhower and myself it is a particularly happy opportunity that we may repay something of the hospitality you so graciously extended to us two years ago in Athens.

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Oct 27, 1953

I have frequently talked about minimum wages to various people, but no recommendation has ever reached me of that kind.

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Oct 27, 1953

Well, Mr. Drummond, of course, we are very old friends; Winston Churchill and I have been warm friends for years.

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Oct 27, 1953

As a matter of fact, I underwent quite a series of tests just before we came back from Denver, and the reports given to me were cheering to a man of my age.

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Oct 27, 1953

Paul I, King of the Hellenes, has made a personal contribution of the greatest importance to the warm friendship between his people and the people of the United States.

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Oct 27, 1953

Well, the timing was such I could not possibly accept it now.

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Oct 27, 1953

There exists no plan for reduction of any combat forces of the United States anywhere.

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Oct 27, 1953

Your Majesties:I count it an opportunity and a rare distinction to welcome the two of you here as the guests of our Nation in this Capital.

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Oct 27, 1953

In this time, when all the world is divided by virtue of a struggle between those who believe in the essential dignity of man as a creature created in the image of his God, and those who contend that man is nothing but a pawn, a creature…

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