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.
A nation's hope of lasting peace cannot be firmly based upon any race in armaments but rather upon just relations and honest understanding with all other nations.
Through knowledge and understanding we will drive from the temple of freedom all who seek to establish over us thought control - whether they be agents of a foreign power or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.
When we get to the point, as we one day will, that both sides know that in any outbreak of general hostilities, regardless of the element of surprise, destruction will be both reciprocal and complete, possibly we will have sense enough to meet at the conference table with the understanding that the era of armaments has ended and the human race must conform its actions to this truth or die.
A good teacher is one who can understand those who are not very good at explaining, and explain to those who are not very good at understanding....
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.
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
I don't attempt to be a poker player before this crowd.
Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.