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
The eyes of the world are upon you...
We have won an armistice on a single battlefield, not peace in our world. We may not now relax our guard nor cease our quest.
I have said time and again there is no place on this earth to which I would not travel, there is no chore I would not undertake if I had any faintest hope that, by so doing, I would promote the general cause of world peace.
The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
We merely want to live in peace with all the world...
The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
The only way to win World War III is to prevent it.
A world that begins to witness the rebirth of trust among nations can find its way to a peace that is neither partial nor punitive. With all who will work in good faith toward such a peace, we are ready, with renewed resolve, to strive to redeem the near-lost hopes of our day.
There is -- in world affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly.
No amphibious attack in history has approached this one in size. Along miles of coastline there were hundreds of vessels and small boats afloat and ant-like files of advancing troops ashore.
... The future is very markedly in your hands, its value and its moral standing in the world and among ourselves. If you will take the power you have and use it, I have no fear of the outcome of the future.
There must be justice, sensed and shared by all peoples, for, without justice the world can know only a tense and unstable truce.
Fortunately for us and our world, young people are not easily discouraged. The hopes of the world rest on the fresh outlook of young people