The Founding Father expressed in words for all to read the ideal of Government based upon the dignity of the individual. That ideal previously had existed only in the hearts and minds of men. They produced the timeless documents upon which the Nation is rounded and has grown great. They, recognizing God as the author of individual fights, declared that the purpose of Government is to secure those rights.
Dwight D. Eisenhower...the right of the individual to elect freely the manner of his care in illness must be preserved.
Dwight D. EisenhowerWell, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?
Dwight D. EisenhowerInnovations and discoveries have created new industries giving more and more Americans better jobs and adding greatly to the prosperity and well being of all.
Dwight D. EisenhowerEvery battle is going to surprise you. No plan ever survives contact with the enemy.
Dwight D. EisenhowerI had been conscious a feeling of depression and so I voiced to [Secretary Of War Stimson] my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives. It was my belief that Japan was, at this very moment, seeking a way to surrender with a minimum loss of 'face.'
Dwight D. Eisenhower