President Eisenhower Quotes in The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

President Eisenhower: Hello, Norville, this is the president. I just wanted to congratulate you. I'm very proud of you, Mrs. Eisenhower is very proud of you, the American people are very proud of you.

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title card: "To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards of men." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

President Eisenhower: ...We have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. And to do this three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishement. We annually spend on military security alone...

Narrator: January, 1961. President Dwight D. Eisenhowers's Farewell Address to the Nation.

President Eisenhower: ...This conjunction of an immense military establishment and arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence - economic, political, even spiritual - is felt in every city, every Statehouse, every office in the federal government. We must guard against the aquisition of unwarranted influence - whether sought or unsought - by the military-industrial complex. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.

M. L. King, Jr.: ...that "All men are created equal."

JFK: Every degree of mind and spirit that I possess will be devoted to the cause of freedom around the world.