Eisenhower

I do hereby proclaim Memorial Day, Monday, the thirtieth of May, 1955, as a day of Nation-wide prayer for permanent peace.

And because it will grow and be more powerful in its influence upon all of us, conventions such as this have very deep social and professional problems to consider, on which they must reach proper conclusions.

Now we have been told that the Republican Party is a minority party.

This country was rounded on the theory that man has his origin through a divine power.

And the mere fact that a person may be minus a limb or one of his senses, or anything else, has nothing to do with it, any more than do the other differences among humans that we conclude should not be allowed to sway us in the government…

I repeat I believe, therefore, that opportunity--individual opportunity and freedom--enriches a whole society, and regimentation merely distributes the losses that have occurred.

Individual initiative, harnessed together for the good of the whole, is the most productive inspiration and impulse we have.

I could think of no greater service that this Committee over the years has contributed to the United States than to bring to each--not only the handicapped people themselves, but to all of us--the fact that opportunity does truly belong to…

I believe that women are more apt than are we men to live by strong convictions and spiritual values.

And we are not doing it for the glorification of the Republican Party, but for the benefit of 160 million Americans.

Indeed, this word 'opportunity' seems to me to contain much that means happiness for the human--opportunity to expand and to be useful, to know that he is contributing his share to the advancement of that great society of which he is a…

I believe that the greatest honor, the greatest distinction, that can come to any American is to feel that in his own niche he has been of service to the United States of America.

Thank you so much for the opportunity to be with you once again.

We can no longer afford to continue a costly deficit operation paid for by millions of taxpayers in amounts out of all proportion to the postal services that they as individuals receive.

Because the enactment of such legislation will substantially increase the postal deficit, I wish again to emphasize the imperative need for postal rates that will make the Postal Service self-supporting and be based on service rendered to…

It is my earnest hope and recommendation that the Congress will quickly consider and enact postal pay legislation that will be in the public interest and fair to all of the half million employees who man the Postal Service.

I take this action for three reasons.

Our purpose in going to this meeting, we are not going to this meeting to conduct a contest.

There is no appeasement in my heart that I know about.

Control of the air is a relative thing.

But they always have held up this standard, safety, making certain that they are not doing something that would work against the life of the child, but to protect the life of that child.

Every community and every citizen must be ready to act swiftly and with confident knowledge of what they are about.

I have no statement, ladies and gentlemen.

Mrs. Hobby, in my opinion, has proved in her office that all of the good opinion built up about her in her work during the war as head of the WAC corps was fully justified.

I think America is forgetting one thing: the thanks we owe to tremendous groups of scientists, devoted doctors, people that have worked night and day.