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. It is spending the sweat 

of its 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 a cross of iron. 

-Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), From a speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1953



We merely want to live in peace with all the world, 

to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn 

from their culture as they may learn from ours, 

so that the products of our toil may be used for 

our schools and our roads and our churches and not 

for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war. 

-Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)



I like to believe that people in the long run are 

going to do more to promote peace than our governments. 

Indeed, I think that people want peace so much 

that one of these days governments had better 

get out of the way and let them have it. 

-Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)



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. 

-Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)