![]() We hold high hopes for useful service to mankind in the power of the atom. Where needed, in order to promote peace and freedom throughout the world, we shall within the prudent limits of our resources, assist friendly countries in their determined efforts to strengthen their economies. We firmly believe in the right of peoples everywhere to determine their form of government, their leaders, their destiny, in peace. Forces of freedom are at work in the nations still enslaved by Communist imperialism. ![]() Austria, Iran and Guatemala have been liberated from Kremlin control. The advance of Communism and its enslavement of people has been checked, and, at key points, thrown back. We shall continue to work unceasingly for a just and enduring peace in a world freed of tyranny.Įvery honorable means at our command has been exercised to alleviate the grievances and causes of armed conflict among nations. Under his leadership, the Republican Administration has carried out foreign policies which have enabled our people to enjoy in peace the blessings of liberty. One leader in the world today towers above all others and inspires the trust, admiration, confidence and good will of all the peoples of every nation-Dwight D. We are proud of our part in bringing into a position of unique authority in the world one who symbolizes, as can no other man, the hopes of all peoples for peace, liberty and justice. We of the Republican Party have fostered this prosperity and are dedicated to its expansion and to the preservation of the climate in which it has thrived. In four years we have achieved the highest economic level with the most widely shared benefits that the world has ever seen. Now we have an honorable peace, which has stopped the bitter toll in casualties and resources, ended depressing wartime restraints, curbed the runaway inflation and unleashed the boundless energy of our people to forge forward on the road to progress. Nearly four years ago when the people of this Nation entrusted their Government to President Eisenhower and the Republican Party, we were locked in a costly and stalemated war. To these beliefs we commit ourselves as we present this record and declare our goals for the future. We are determined that our government remain warmly responsive to the urgent social and economic problems of our people. We are proud of and shall continue our far-reaching and sound advances in matters of basic human needs-expansion of social security-broadened coverage in unemployment insurance -improved housing-and better health protection for all our people. We shall continue to root out corruption whenever and wherever it appears. ![]() We shall continue our insistence on honesty as an indispensable requirement of public service. We believe that basic to governmental integrity are unimpeachable ethical standards and irreproachable personal conduct by all people in government. We shall ever build anew, that our children and their children, without distinction because of race, creed or color, may know the blessings of our free land. While jealously guarding the free institutions and preserving the principles upon which our Republic was founded and has flourished, the purpose of the Republican Party is to establish and maintain a peaceful world and build at home a dynamic prosperity in which every citizen fairly shares. In all those things which deal with people's money, or their economy, or their form of government, be conservative." Eisenhower has counseled us further: "In all those things which deal with people, be liberal, be human. But in all that people can individually do as well for themselves, Government ought not to interfere." On its Centennial, the Republican Party again calls to the minds of all Americans the great truth first spoken by Abraham Lincoln: "The legitimate object of Government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done but cannot do at all, or cannot so well do, for themselves in their separate and individual capacities. The Republican Party was formed 100 years ago to preserve the Nation's devotion to these ideals. Our Government was created by the people for all the people, and it must serve no less a purpose. They not only proclaimed that the freedom and rights of men came from the Creator and not from the State, but they provided safeguards to those freedoms. We give devoted homage to the Founding Fathers. the source of every man's dignity and freedom. America's trust is in the merciful providence of God, in whose image every man is created.
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