“ Knowing that only a United States that is strong and immensely productive can help defend freedom in our world, we view our Nation's strength and security as a trust upon which rests the hope of free men everywhere. ”
Dwight D. Eisenhower, First Inaugural Address (1953). copy citation
| Author | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
|---|---|
| Source | First Inaugural Address |
| Topic | freedom strength |
| Date | 1953 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dwight_Eisenhower's_First_Inaugural_Addre... |
Context
“Realizing that common sense and common decency alike dictate the futility of appeasement, we shall never try to placate an aggressor by the false and wicked bargain of trading honor for security. Americans, indeed all free men, remember that in the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.
(3) Knowing that only a United States that is strong and immensely productive can help defend freedom in our world, we view our Nation's strength and security as a trust upon which rests the hope of free men everywhere. It is the firm duty of each of our free citizens and of every free citizen everywhere to place the cause of his country before the comfort, the convenience of himself.
(4) Honoring the identity and the special heritage of each nation in the world, we shall never use our strength to try to impress upon another people our own cherished political and economic institutions.”
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