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
Dwight D. Eisenhower quotes about
How far have we come in man's long pilgrimage from darkness toward light? Are we nearing the light-a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us?
America's leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches and military strength, but on how we use our power in the interests of world peace and human betterment.
Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.
Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.
I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.
We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.
I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.
No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.
Knowledge-full, unfettered knowledge of its own heritage, of freedom's enemies, of the whole world of men and ideas-this knowledge is a free people's surest strength.
I despise all adjectives that try to describe people as liberal or conservative, rightist or leftist, as long as they stay in the useful part of the road.
The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.