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
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[T]he rule of law does more than ensure freedom from high-handed action by rulers. It ensures justice between man and man however humble the one and however powerful the other. A man with five dollars in the bank can call to account the corporation with five billion dollars in assets-and the two will be heard as equals before the law.
We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.
The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty... Practical progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope.
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
... 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.
Science seems ready to confer upon us, as its final gift, the power to erase human life from this planet.
In all those things which deal with people, be liberal, be human. In all those things which deal with the people's money or their economy or their form of government, be conservative.
There are three stages of life: youth, maturity, and 'My, you're looking good!'
We reject any idea that one race of people is in any way better than another.
A voter without a ballot is like a soldier without a bullet.
If people get together, so eventually will nations.
We have got to fight it [Communism] with something better, not try to conceal the thinking of our own people. They are part of America. And even if they think ideas that are contrary to ours, their right to say them, their right to record them, and their right to have them at places where they are accessible to others is unquestioned, or it isn't America.
Our government makes no sense unless it is founded on a deeply held religious belief - and I don't care what it is.
Remember that it is not by a tyrant's words, but only by his deeds that we can know him.