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
There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens can not cure.
We have heard much of the phrase, ''peace and friendship.'' This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, ''peace and friendship, in freedom.'' This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.
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?
The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice - their choice
How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. (31 August 1959)
The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.