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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.
SUBJECTS: Equality