"One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one."
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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.
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
Alan: While assembling this quote compendium, I was struck by Ike's faith in the causative relationship between justice and peace and his belief that humankind can establish the foundation of "eternal peace." This from the hard-boiled military man who won World War II.
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"Why We Fight," A Documentary Film About The Military Industrial Complex
Starring Dwight Eisenhower
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