Political Quotes

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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Sep 9, 1959

The great sustaining force of America is not simply to be found in its laws or institutions--but in the manners of her people, her habits of heart.

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Sep 9, 1959

To our friends in Bonn, London, and Paris, I expressed America's concern over the aggressive actions of the Communism in Asia.

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Aug 26, 1959

We reaffirmed our resolve to continue our efforts to achieve a just and peaceful solution of the problem of the tragic division of Germany.

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Aug 26, 1959

I referred once again to the pledge given by the United States and its allies to protect the freedom and welfare of the people of Berlin.

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Aug 26, 1959

The mutual cooperation of both their countries within the Atlantic Alliance... will therefore continue to be one of the pillars of the foreign policies of the two countries.

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Aug 24, 1959

To pledge, once again, in the several capitals I shall visit, America's devotion to peace with honor and justice.

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Aug 24, 1959

I want to point out especially the tremendous inflationary effect of putting all of our financing in the short-term area.

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Aug 24, 1959

I am about to embark on a journey which I wish could be extended until I had visited the capital of every nation on this globe that, like ourselves, is dedicated to individual liberty and dignity, and wants only to live under a government…

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Aug 24, 1959

I think it is one of the fine lessons that he can learn, and it may have some effect.

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Aug 24, 1959

I invited Mr. Khrushchev to come to this country because of several reasons.

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Aug 2, 1959

Nevertheless, I have already suggested that prior to these meetings, I go to meet our friends in Europe and to discuss with them problems of mutual interest.

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Aug 2, 1959

I think coordination with the allied powers has been remarkably good in the past weeks.

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Aug 2, 1959

I have already suggested that prior to these meetings, I go to meet our friends in Europe and to discuss with them problems of mutual interest.

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Aug 2, 1959

I invited Mr. Nikita Khrushchev to pay an official visit to the United States in September.

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Jul 10, 1959

I herewith transmit for the consideration of the Congress the report of the National Capital Planning Commission and the National Capital Regional Planning Council on the Mass Transportation Survey of the Washington Region.

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Jul 7, 1959

We must never stop trying, and that's the reason I say I am personally ready to go any place where I think any good can be done, and at any time.

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Jul 7, 1959

I am never going to give up the basic fight for the Nation's security and for protecting our vital interests, as I see them.

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Jul 7, 1959

No, other than to continue to urge both sides to continue negotiations to find a reasonable answer.

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Jul 7, 1959

We ought to negotiate and keep negotiating until we have gotten somewhere.

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Jul 7, 1959

Public opinion is the only motivating force there is in a republic or in a democracy.

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Jun 7, 1959

However, any debt management device which would seek to interfere with the natural interaction of the competitive forces of our free economy and produce unnatural reductions in interest rates would not only breach the fundamental…

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Jun 7, 1959

It must also be managed as economically as possible in terms of interest costs.

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