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
I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.
I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.
I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.
Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.
Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.
There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.
Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.
The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.
For any American who had the great and priceless privilege of being raised in a small town there always remains with him nostalgic memories... And the older he grows the more he senses what he owed to the simple honesty and neighborliness, the integrity that he saw all around him in those days.
You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.
It is still a fact that our common frontier grows stronger every year, defended only by friendship.
Why are we proud? We are proud, first of all, because from the beginning of this Nation, a man can walk upright, no matter who he is, or who she is. He can walk upright and meet his friend--or his enemy; and he does not fear that because that enemy may be in a position of great power that he can be suddenly thrown in jail to rot there without charges and with no recourse to justice. We have the habeas corpus act, and we respect it.
So long as we govern our nation by the letter and spirit of the Bill of Rights, we can be sure that our nation will grow in strength and wisdom and freedom.