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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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Sep 22, 1953

There is none that engages the interests of my heart, or of which I am prouder, than this one.

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Sep 22, 1953

These problems reach from the humblest home and smallest workshop in our land to the most distant areas of this troubled earth.

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Sep 22, 1953

Our policies and programs must be flexible and capable of growth.

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Sep 22, 1953

To the 72d Annual Convention of the American Federation of Labor, I send my sincere good wishes.

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Sep 22, 1953

The issues at stake are not the possessions of a class or group.

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Sep 22, 1953

With all its defects, with all the failures that we can check up against it, it still represents man's best organized hope to substitute the conference table for the battlefield.

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Sep 22, 1953

It is hereby ordered that the purchase, custody, transfer, or sale of foreign exchange (including credits and currencies) by any executive department or agency of the United States shall be administered under such regulations as may be…

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Sep 21, 1953

It is not an administration that sits up in an ivory tower of lonely isolation and gives words of wisdom that all of you must obey or be wrong.

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Sep 21, 1953

We are here not only to do our duty in government, but to learn.

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Sep 21, 1953

NO GROUP of citizens has been called to a higher mission than the one on which you are setting forth today.

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Sep 21, 1953

It is my belief that the American people will gladly and liberally respond to your plea as many of them have done in similar situations in the past through various voluntary agencies.

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Sep 20, 1953

We have observed and practiced true bi-partisanship in international affairs.

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Sep 20, 1953

Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in us.

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Sep 11, 1953

There shall be established the Advisory Committee on Government Housing Policies and Programs.

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Sep 7, 1953

Now, Therefore, I, Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States of America, do hereby direct that the National Flag be displayed at half staff upon all the public buildings of the United States for thirty days; that the usual and…

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Sep 2, 1953

The Director of the Bureau of the Budget is hereby authorized and empowered to exercise the authority vested in the President.

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Aug 14, 1953

Now, Therefore, I, Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the aforesaid act, do hereby proclaim the said Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1948, as…

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Aug 6, 1953

Now, Therefore, I, Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States of America, do direct the appropriate officials of the Government to display the flag of the United States on all public buildings on Thursday, September 17, 1953.

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Aug 4, 1953

Except as otherwise provided in paragraph 3 hereof, there is hereby delegated to the Secretary of Defense (a) the authority vested in the President by subsection 4 (a) of the act of September 9, 1950, 64 Stat. 826, as amended by section 3…

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Jul 29, 1953

I must, therefore, request of the Congress legislation raising the statutory debt limit.

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Jul 26, 1953

It is the chance--and the need--for the free peoples to give clear and tangible testimony to their awareness that true peace means more than the simple absence of war.

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Jul 21, 1953

Except as otherwise provided herein, this order shall become effective as of the date of its publication in the FEDERAL REGISTER.

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