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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)
1953: 350 quotes1954: 575 quotes1955: 357 quotes1956: 136 quotes1957: 143 quotes1958: 118 quotes1959: 93 quotes1960: 57 quotes1961: 7 quotes
Oct 19, 1958

This record justifies support for Republican candidates from coast to coast.

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Oct 19, 1958

No matter what the political merchants of fear and defeat would have you believe, we have kept that promise.

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Oct 19, 1958

The striking power of our Strategic Air Command is beyond imagination.

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Oct 13, 1958

Let’s put behind us all memory of past quarrels among ourselves.

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Oct 13, 1958

We started off in 1952 to break away from the kind of government... that wants to put all power, all direction of our economy... in the hands of a central bureaucracy.

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Oct 13, 1958

Balanced budgets help in making it possible for the housewife to balance her own budget.

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Oct 13, 1958

All we have to do is to give of ourselves—not money, not alone.

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Oct 13, 1958

We wanted to restore more authority to localities, to states and above all to individuals, whether he be a farmer, a worker, a business man or a professional man.

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Oct 11, 1958

The cornerstone symbolizes a prime support of our faith--'The Truth' that sets men free.

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Oct 11, 1958

Freedom of worship is a basic privilege; guaranteed by the Constitution.

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Oct 11, 1958

Clearly, civil and religious liberties are mutually reinforcing.

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Oct 11, 1958

If we are believers in the tradition by which we have lived, that freedom of worship is inherent in human liberty, then we will not countenance the desecration of any edifice that symbolizes one of the great faiths.

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Oct 11, 1958

Washington believed that national morality could not be maintained without a firm foundation of religious principle.

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Oct 11, 1958

In that ceremony, the Bible symbolizes the solemn obligations which he takes 'to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.'

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Sep 30, 1958

I think, personally, that that one thing is a sentimental, emotional thing in this United States.

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Sep 30, 1958

I should say they represent, as the whole world recognizes, remarkable achievements.

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Sep 30, 1958

I say the cause of that kind of government is probably going to be lost in this country.

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Sep 30, 1958

Our plan was devised, as I pointed out before, with an entirely different purpose from that that the Soviets had.

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