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
It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.
I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.
I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle.
This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.
Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.
"In the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love."
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.