Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
550
AUTHOR:
Dwight David Eisenhower (1890–1969)
QUOTATION:
Legislation to apply the principle of equal pay for equal work without discrimination because of sex is a matter of simple justice.
ATTRIBUTION:
President DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, annual message to the Congress on the State of the Union, January 5, 1956.—Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956, p. 23.
Read before a joint session of Congress by a clerk of the House of Representatives.
