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1890–1969 United States
Dwight David Eisenhower (14 October 1890 – 28 March 1969), also widely known by his nickname "Ike", was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe, and achieved the rare five-star rank of General of the Army.
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I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United States.
All free men remember that in the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.
All of us have heard this term "preventive war" since the earliest days of Hitler. I recall that is about the first time I heard it.
Oh, goddammit, we forgot the silent prayer.
We have not taken and we shall not take a single backward step. There must be no second class citizens in this country.
God created man to enjoy, not destroy, the fruits of the earth and of their own toil.
The Chance for Peace (1953)
The Founders conceived government as the servant, not the master of the individual.
I thought so at first, but there is reason to believe that he is still alive. But that in itself does not constitute a problem.
The government in Washington belongs to you.
You have got to have something in which to believe. You have got to have leaders, organization, friendships, and contacts that help you to believe that, and help you to put out your best.
It is the firm duty of each of our free citizens and of every free citizen everywhere to place the cause of his country before the comfort, the convenience of himself.
I believe that the United States as a government, if it is going to be true to its own founding documents, does have the job of working toward that time when there is no discrimination made on such inconsequential reason as race, color, or religion.
If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.
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.
Love of liberty means the guarding of every resource that makes freedom possible--from the sanctity of our families and the wealth of our soil to the genius of our scientists.
There is one thing about being President — nobody can tell you when to sit down.
Dr. Salk is a benefactor of mankind.
Democracy is essentially a political system that recognizes the equality of humans before the law.
The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.
The Chance for Peace (1953)
We believe in the principle that governments are properly established only when it is with the consent of the governed.
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