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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 11, 1956

Now, when I see what unions have done for the working man of America ... I don't have to have any doubt in my mind as to what they have done for America as a whole.

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Oct 11, 1956

I assure you they are doing one thing--they are working day and night for your benefit and mine.

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Oct 11, 1956

If I could have a birthday present ... it would be exactly the same as that of every other American--an assurance that a just peace was on the horizon and coming to us that we were going to enjoy.

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Oct 11, 1956

I believe every true American does want to see progress proceeding until finally the equality is not only known by all, it's felt by all.

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Oct 11, 1956

I believe that if the laboring man today ... will look at the record, I think they will find nothing here that they can say this administration is their enemy; on the contrary, they are good friends.

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Oct 11, 1956

It is true that you can say technically the cost of living is high.

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Oct 11, 1956

We must do everything we can to make those homes ... places that establish the moral character that this Nation itself is going to follow.

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Oct 11, 1956

The progress made in the settlement of the Suez dispute this afternoon at the United Nations is most gratifying.

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Sep 24, 1956

The value of the government stockpile of farm surpluses climbed to nine billion dollars.

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Sep 24, 1956

Let us--I repeat--talk facts--and begin with a little recent history.

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Sep 24, 1956

This year the soil bank is retiring over 12 million acres and earning a half million farmers more than $260 million.

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