Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhowerwas an American politician and general who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe. He was responsible for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942–43 and the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944–45 from the Western Front. In...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPresident
Date of Birth14 October 1890
CountryUnited States of America
The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.
When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.
The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.
The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them.
From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.
The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.
In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.
I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.
No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.