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
Like myself, all Americans have a deep concern for the well-being of Iran. With them I have watched closely your courageous efforts, your steadfastness over the past difficult years, and with them I too have hoped that you might achieve the goals you so earnestly desire. The attainment of an oil settlement along the lines which have been announced should be a significant step in the direction of the realization of your aspirations for your people.
If you are waging peace, you can't be too particular sometimes about the special attitudes that different countries take. We were a young country once, and our whole policy for the first 150 years was, we were neutral. We must not be parsimonious, as long as we are not shooting, we are not spending one tenth as much.
Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.
No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.
It is still a fact that our common frontier grows stronger every year, defended only by friendship.
Your country, my country - each is a better and stronger and more influential nation because each can rely upon every resource of the other in days of crisis. Beyond this, each can work and grow and prosper with the other through years of quiet peace.
I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United States.
I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.
Some politician some years ago said that bad officials are elected by good voters who do not vote.
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,