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Ike: Warrior Wisdom

Written below are some interesting quotes and insights of General, then later, President Dwight D. Eisenhower.  He was intimately aware of the cost of freedom, the source of freedom, and the kind weapons it takes to maintain our freedom.  May God continue to bless and protect our troops, their families, and our nation. -Jeff Martone

“Americans, indeed all free men, remember that in the final choice, a soldier’s pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner’s chain."

On the night of July 10, 1943, General Eisenhower (Supreme Commander of Allied Forces during World War II) observed the armada of 3,000 naval ships that he had ordered to battle, sailing from Malta to the shores of Sicily.  He saluted his men, then bowed his head in prayer.  To the officer next to him he commented.

“There comes a time when you’ve used your brains, your training, your technical skill, and the die is cast and the events are in the hands of God, and there you have to leave them.”

On June 14, 1954, President Eisenhower supported and signed into law the Congressional Act, Joint Resolution 243, which added the phrase “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance:

“In this way we are reaffirming the transcendence of religious faith in America’s heritage and future; in this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country’s most powerful resource in peace and war.”

President Eisenhower then stood on the steps of the Capitol Building and recited the Pledge of Allegiance with the phrase “one Nation under God” for the first time:

“ I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

(The Pledge of Allegiance was first written in 1892 by a Baptist minister from Boston named Francis Bellamy, who was ordained in the Baptist Church of Little Falls, New York.  He was a member of the staff of The Youth’s Companion, which first published the Pledge on September 8, 1892.  At the dedication of the 1892 Chicago World’s Fair on October 12, 1892, public-school children first recited the Pledge of Allegiance during the National School Celebration on the 400th anniversary of Columbus’ discovery of America.  The words “under God” were taken form Abraham Lincoln’s famous Gettysburg Address, “…that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth…”)

In 1954, President Dwight David Eisenhower, Said:

“The purpose of a devout and united people was set forth in the pages of the Bible…(1) to live in freedom (2) to work in a prosperous land…(3) to obey the commandments of God…This Biblical story of the Promised Land inspired the founders of America.  It continues to inspire us…”

In his Inaugural Address, January 21 1957, President Eisenhower exclaimed:

“Before all else, we seek upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God.  An the hopes in our hearts fashion the deepest prayers of our whole people.”

“The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.”

“The Bible is endorsed by the ages.  Our civilization is built upon its words.  In no other book is there such a collection of inspired wisdom, reality, and hope.”

The above quotes are taken from the book America’s God and Country by William J. Federer.