Dwight D. Eisenhower: Press Conference on Communism
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The easiest thing to do with great power is to abuse it, to use it to excess. This most powerful of the free nations must not permit itself to grow weary of the process of negotiation and adjustment that are fundamental to freedom. If it should turn impatiently to coercion of other free nations, our brand of coercion, so far as our friends are concerned, would be the mark of the imperialist, rather than the leader.Dwight D. Eisenhower brought his prestige as commanding general of the victorious forces in Europe during World War II to the presidency and was dedicated to maintaining world peace. In 1953, the signing of a truce brought an end to the Korean War. Meanwhile, both Russia and the United States had developed hydrogen bombs, and with the threat of such destructive force hanging over the world, Eisenhower, with the leaders of the British, French, and Russian governments, met at Geneva in July 1955. Eisenhower put forth his "atoms for peace" program, which provided for the loan of American uranium to "have not" nations for peaceful purposes. 
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