Eisenhower

If there is one enthusiastic booster for international travel in the world, I would certainly be numbered among those who come close to the top.

I realize that these representatives here really represent some 20 million people, and I am told there are 31 countries here represented, which makes it a truly significant body.

This order shall become effective at the close of June 30, 1955.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 301 of title 3 of the United States Code (65 Stat. 713), and as President of the United States, it is ordered that the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby, designated and empowered to…

You must protect them for all, or your own will be lost.

It is well to remember this also: you may not protect those rights only for yourself.

This country is a spiritual organism.

We hold that all men are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights.

I also call upon the people of the Nation to give public and private expression to the esteem in which our country holds its mothers, through the display of the flag at their homes and other suitable places, through prayers at their places…

I earnestly urge, therefore, that appropriate legislation be enacted at this session of the Congress to permit revision of the 1946 Agreement in accordance with the recommendations contained in the Final Act.

Now, Therefore, I, Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States of America, do hereby request that Sunday, May 8, 1955, be celebrated as Mother's Day; and I direct the appropriate officials of the Government to arrange for the…

This order shall become effective on the date that the Convention on Relations between the Three Powers and the Federal Republic of Germany and related Conventions, as amended, come into force.

Well, I don't want to comment without knowing somewhat more of the facts than I do.

Well, yes. I have given all sorts of consideration to it.

No. There was a--it is a rather laborious explanation.

I am honored to be your guest.

Your Excellency, it is a great privilege for me to present to you the highest award that this Government can give to anyone not a citizen of this country.

America is a place of differing convictions, and if anyone wants to sit in an ivory tower and hear only from those people who believe with him, again, America will not be what he would hope it would be.

And if ever we lose that part of the system they set up, we will lose the United States as we know it.

My earnest compliments to you, sir.

If we apply those principles today to ourselves at home, and to our tackling of our relationships with our friends abroad, we can dispel fear from our minds.

We must never accept it if it means the surrender of this vital principle: of living by our own initiative and our individual freedoms to develop ourselves physically, intellectually, and spiritually.

It is a special privilege, because in this way we can take note, we hope, of the cooperation of one who has done so much to stand by our side as all of us attempt to defend human freedom, dignity, and liberty in the world.

We cannot lose; we simply cannot lose.

Ladies and gentlemen, good night, good luck, and I hope to see you again.