Dwight D. Eisenhower: From a speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1953

"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. 

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. 

It is spending the sweat 

of its laborers."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, From a speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1953 

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