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
By mutual respect, understanding and with good will we can find acceptable solutions to any problems which exist or may arise between us.
I get weary of the European habit of taking our money, resenting any slight hint as to what they should do, and then assuming, in addition, full right to criticize us as bitterly as they may desire.
May we, in our dealings with all the peoples of the earth, ever speak the truth and serve justice.
This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.
Our arms must be mighty ... ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction
Hope spurs humans everywhere to work harder to endure more now that the future may be better.
And now, as in no other age, we seek it [peace] because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.
We won't get it turned around in one year, or four years or maybe even 10,
I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem -- and that yardstick is: Is it good for 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.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog
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,
Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.