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By Dwight D. Eisenhower
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
- Source
- Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953
- Read at
- The American Presidency Project (text follows the Public Papers of the Presidents)
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From Dwight D. Eisenhower's First Inaugural Address, delivered January 20, 1953, in a passage about the sacrifices the nation must be willing to accept.