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
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.
I have two kinds of problems, the urgent and the important. The urgent are not important, and the important are never urgent.
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