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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 19, 1954

Of course, I am astonished that Governor Lodge is 51. He looked to me 41.

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Oct 19, 1954

I most thoroughly believe in young men, and I think it is a very simple proposition: if I am lucky I may own 15 or 20 years of the United States.

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Oct 19, 1954

Our people and their Government are dedicated to making this a just and a lasting peace.

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Oct 19, 1954

We will welcome a workable system for limiting armaments and controlling atomic energy.

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Oct 18, 1954

There is no task facing the world today so important as maintaining a peace and giving to the world confidence that that peace will be just and lasting.

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Oct 18, 1954

My friend, I would like for you to know that the soldier has only one excuse for living in this world, and that is to regain the peace that you diplomats lost in the first place.

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Oct 17, 1954

NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 24 of the act of March 3, 1891, 26 Stat. 1103, and the act of June 4, 1897, 30 Stat. 34, 36 (16 U.S.C. 471, 473), and as President of the United States, and upon the…

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Oct 17, 1954

In the public interest this finding should be effective immediately.

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Oct 17, 1954

There has been indeed a very close association between America and Liberia. And it is transcendent of mere sentiment.

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Oct 17, 1954

I find and declare that the imposition of the quantitative limitations hereinafter proclaimed is shown by such investigation of the Tariff Commission to be necessary in order that the entry, or withdrawal from warehouse, for consumption of…

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Oct 17, 1954

President Tubman, my friends: I think it would be difficult to conceive of a social occasion in which could be symbolized more of improbable romance and sheer grandeur than we have in this room this evening.

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