“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.
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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.
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It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
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The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities.
It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population.
It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals.
It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement.
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It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population.
It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals.
It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement.
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We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat.
We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.”
- Dwight Eisenhower
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We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.”
- Dwight Eisenhower
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Eisenhower (a Republican and Commander of the Allied forces in WWII) said this in a speech called “The Chance for Peace” in 1953, less than two months into his presidency.
Seems like a really good time to revisit it as we finally (and very poorly) end America’s longest war.
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Seems like a really good time to revisit it as we finally (and very poorly) end America’s longest war.
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What kind of a country do we want to be?
One that continues to be controlled by the military-industrial complex? One whose presidents quote the Bible to justify war and violence? One that sacrifices the lives of its children on the altar of war?
Or…
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One that continues to be controlled by the military-industrial complex? One whose presidents quote the Bible to justify war and violence? One that sacrifices the lives of its children on the altar of war?
Or…
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Can we be a country that strives for peace?
I don’t know, but I want us to try.
I want to be part of a country that takes the money meant for war and uses it feed the hungry, clothe the cold, educate our children, care for the sick, and house the homeless.
How about you?
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I don’t know, but I want us to try.
I want to be part of a country that takes the money meant for war and uses it feed the hungry, clothe the cold, educate our children, care for the sick, and house the homeless.
How about you?
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