DOES AMERICA WANT WAR?

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children....This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron

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The Honorable Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1890 - 1969

34th President of the United States

Supreme Commander, Integrated European Defense Forces

From a speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1953