“THE POTENTIAL FOR THE DISASTROUS RISE OF MISPLACED POWER EXISTS AND WILL PERSIST”

“Talk of imminent threat to our national security

through the application of external force is pure nonsense.

Indeed it is part of the general pattern of misguided policy

that our country is now geared to an arms economy

which was bred in an artificially induced

psychosis of war hysteria

and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.”

General Douglas MacArthur

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"This conjunction of an immense military establishment

and a large arms industry is new in the American experience.

The total influence — economic, political, even spiritual

is felt in every city, every State house,

every office of the Federal government.

We recognize the imperative need for this development.

Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications.

Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved;

so is the very structure of our society."

"In the councils of government, we must guard against

the acquisition of unwarranted influence,

whether sought or unsought,

by the military-industrial complex.

The potential for the disastrous rise

of misplaced power exists and will persist."

President Dwight D. Eisenhower

Farewell address 1/17/1961

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"Even today, there is little value

in ensuring the survival of our nation

if our traditions do not survive with it.

And there is very grave danger

that an announced need for increased security

will be seized upon by those

anxious to expand it's meaning

to the very limits of official censorship and concealment."

President John F. Kennedy

from his speech in New York City, April 27, 1961

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