Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1671
AUTHOR:
Dwight David Eisenhower (1890–1969)
QUOTATION:
If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They’ll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government.
ATTRIBUTION:
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, president of Columbia University, speech to luncheon clubs, Galveston, Texas, December 8, 1949.—The New York Times, December 9, 1949, p. 23.
