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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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Aug 29, 1957

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…

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Aug 29, 1957

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…

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Aug 29, 1957

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.

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Aug 13, 1957

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.

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Aug 13, 1957

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

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Aug 13, 1957

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

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Aug 13, 1957

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

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Aug 13, 1957

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

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Aug 13, 1957

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.

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Aug 13, 1957

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

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Aug 13, 1957

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

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Jul 2, 1957

I would say this. Naturally, I am not a lawyer and I don't participate in drawing up the exact language of proposals.

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