Who said the eyes of the world are upon you

Only a handful of unreconstructed reactionaries harbor the ugly thought of breaking unions. Only a fool would try to deprive working men and women of the right to join the union of their choice. Government can do a great deal to aid the settlement of labor disputes without allowing itself to be employed as an ally of either side. Its proper role in industrial strife is to encourage the process of mediation and conciliation. You have got to have leaders, organization, friendships, and contacts that help you to believe that, and help you to put out your best.

A commander of a regiment is not necessarily a leader. He has all of the appurtenances of power given by a set of Army regulations by which he can compel unified action. He can say to a body such as this, "Rise," and "Sit down. But that is not leadership. And one of the things a leader needs occasionally is the inspiration he gets from the people he leads. The old tactical textbooks say that the commander always visits his troops to inspire them to fight. I for one soon discovered that one of the reasons for my visiting the front lines was to get inspiration from the young American soldier.

I went back to my job ashamed of my own occasional resentments or discouragements, which I probably -- at least I hope I concealed them. He said, the great leader, the genius in leadership, is the man who can do the average thing when everybody else is going crazy. But organization itself, necessary as it is, is never sufficient to win a battle.

It means the acceptance of law, and the fostering of justice, in all the world. They will spend the day in unceasing toil. And as the sun goes down they will still know hunger. They will see suffering in the eyes of their children. Many despair that their labor will ever decently shelter their families or protect them against disease. So long as this is so, peace and freedom will be in danger throughout our world.

For wherever free men lose hope of progress, liberty will be weakened and the seeds of conflict will be sown. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

This alertness to danger has to be translated into specific policies and activities in the several parts of the world where our rights -- our way of life -- can be seriously damaged. Work of this kind occupies my days and nights. To proclaim it is easy. To serve it will be hard.

And to attain it, we must be aware of its full meaning -- and ready to pay its full price. Plenty of worries and difficult problems. But such has been my portion for a long time -- the result is that this just seems today like a continuation of all I've been doing since July '41 -- even before that! There have been times in war where I thought nothing could be quite as wearing and tearing as that with lives directly involved. But I would say, on the whole, this is the most wearing, although not necessarily, as I say, the most tiring.

When I hear this assertion, I always try to point out that a single man must make the final decisions that affect the whole, but that proper organization brings to him only the questions and problems on which his decisions are needed.

His own job is to be mentally prepared to make those decisions and then to be supported by an organization that will make sure they are carried out.

We know that even our prayers are imperfect. Even our supplications are imperfect. Of course they are. We are imperfect human beings. But if we can back off from those problems and make the effort, then there is something that ties us all together.

We have begun in our grasp of that basis of understanding, which is that all free government is firmly founded in a deeply-felt religious faith. This faith is the living source of all our spiritual strength. And this strength is our matchless armor in our world-wide struggle against the forces of godless tyranny and oppression.

To anyone who truly loves America, nothing could be more inspiring than to contemplate this rededication of our youth, on each school morning, to our country's true meaning. Especially is this meaningful as we regard today's world.

Over the globe, mankind has been cruelly torn by violence and brutality and, by the millions, deadened in mind and soul by a materialistic philosophy of life. Man everywhere is appalled by the prospect of atomic war. In this somber setting, this law and its effects today have profound meaning. 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 or in war.

It impels human beings to greatness in thought and word and deed. We are not merely religious, we are inclined, more today than ever, to see the value of religion as a practical force in our affairs. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first -- the most basic -- expression of Americanism.

Thus the Founding Fathers saw it, and thus, with God's help, it will continue to be. That hope represents a spark of the Divine which is implanted in every human breast. Our country and its government have made mistakes -- human mistakes.

They have been of the head -- not of the heart. And let us all beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking. Dwight D. Eisenhower , Supreme Allied Commander, 6 June Four years ago our nation and empire stood alone against an overwhelming enemy, with our backs to the wall. Now once more a supreme test has to be faced. This time the challenge is not to fight to survive but to fight to win the final victory for the good cause.

At this historic moment surely not one of us is too busy, too young, or too old to play a part in a nation-wide, perchance a world-wide vigil of prayer as the great crusade sets forth. You get your ass on the beach. Paul R. Alfred Jodl, operations chief of the German high command, early I am firmly convinced that our supporting naval fire got us in; that without the gunfire we positively could not have crossed the beaches. Harry E. Moore was a sociologist at UT who passed away a month before the shooting.

Many returned to campus the next day unsure of the next steps to take. As examples of scapegoating, they identified several targets of popular blaming: the psychiatrist who treated Whitman months before, police protocol, and the gun laws.

John A. Boston, a private practitioner and part-time assistant professor of Special Education at UT, labeled Whitman as a paranoid schizophrenic. Whitcraft interviewed Dr. Clarence R. The United Nations have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats, in open battle, man-to-man.

Our air offensive has seriously reduced their strength in the air and their capacity to wage war on the ground. Our Home Fronts have given us an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions of war, and placed at our disposal great reserves of trained fighting men.

The tide has turned! The free men of the world are marching together to Victory! I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory! Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking. National Archives Identifier: General Dwight D. Eisenhower gave the final order that put the vast D-day operation in motion on June 5, , after a break in the stormy weather was predicted for the next day.

Following his decision, Eisenhower dashed off this note, in case the Allied invasion of Europe on D-Day June 6th failed. In the statement, he praised the men under his command and claimed that any fault or failure "is mine alone. Transcript Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based upon the best information available.

The troops, the air and the Navy did all that Bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone.