“We –finally—look upon change, the every-unfolding future, with confidence rather than doubt, hope rather than fear. We, as a people, were born of revolution. And we have lived by change—always a frontier people, exploring—if not new wilderness—then new science and new knowledge.”

—  Dwight D. Eisenhower

1950s, Address at the Philadelphia Convention Hall (1956)

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