“ No free people can for long cling to any privilege or enjoy any safety in economic solitude. ”
Dwight D. Eisenhower, First Inaugural Address (1953). copy citation
| Author | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
|---|---|
| Source | First Inaugural Address |
| Topic | safety solitude |
| Date | 1953 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dwight_Eisenhower's_First_Inaugural_Addre... |
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“It confers a common dignity upon the French soldier who dies in Indo-China, the British soldier killed in Malaya, the American life given in Korea.
We know, beyond this, that we are linked to all free peoples not merely by a noble idea but by a simple need. No free people can for long cling to any privilege or enjoy any safety in economic solitude. For all our own material might, even we need markets in the world for the surpluses of our farms and our factories. Equally, we need for these same farms and factories vital materials and products of distant lands.”
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