Musings on faith, society and whatever else gets me going from one of a tradition of turbulent clerics.

Saturday, November 05, 2011

The price of armaments

"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. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of 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 an iron cross."

Dwight Eisenhower

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Blogger Robert Brenchley said...

They once had a reasonably honest president who tried to tell them the truth. What went wrong?

7:57 PM

 
Blogger Paul Martin said...

I wish I knew. Perhaps we have here the words of a man who knew the horror of war rather than the arm chair generals who have succeeded him.

10:21 AM

 

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