| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | 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. |
| SUBJECTS: | Security |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | |
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