Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
Eisenhower, Dwight D. "Radio Address to the American People on the National Security and Its Costs." 19 May 1953. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953, Office of the Federal Register, 1960, p. 308.
In early WWII, he opposed the Japanese military practice of killing conquered civilian people to instill fear and make them accept occupation. (In this case in occupied Indonesia). He was arrested by the military and sentenced to death, but he never was executed. Though not generally known, there were a number of Japanese who opposed the Japanese military policies and practices. He was one.
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower GCB OM GCS CCLH KC NPk 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 became a five-star general in the Army and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force 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 Normandy in 1944–45 from the Western Front.
