“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 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.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 – 1969), From a speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1953
Jeff says:
December 24, 2010 at 3:31 pm
Eisenhower was the last visionary
Craig says:
January 4, 2011 at 11:28 pm
I agree with Jeff. Its a shame, really, the way the World (and the United States in particular) is today. War hungry, power hungry, etc. All the while, it’s people are suffering.