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 have one yardstick by which I test every major problem-and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.
Americans, indeed all free men, remember that in the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains
There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens can not cure.
The older I get, the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first - a process which often reduces the most complex human problems to manageable proportions
How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?
The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice - their choice