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
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.
Every gun that's made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms...is spending the genius of its scientists, the sweat of its laborers,
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog
I don't attempt to be a poker player before this crowd.
Oh yes, I studied dramatics under him for 12 years.
Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.