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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Dwight D. Eisenhower
34th US President (1890-1969). As Supreme Allied Commander he led D-Day. As president (1953-61) he ended the Korean War, built the Interstate Highway System, founded NASA, and warned in his farewell against the "military-industrial complex."
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Dwight D. Eisenhower's Other Quotes
I have two kinds of problems, the urgent and the important. The urgent are not important, and the important are never urgent.
Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
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