22.5.02

I Like Ike

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, [and] the hopes of its children.

- President Dwight D. Eisenhower. "Chance for Peace" Address, delivered to the American Society of Newspaper Editors and broadcast live over television and radio from the Statler Hotel in Washington D.C., April 16, 1953

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