As Eisenhower said in an April 1953 speech, "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, ev
As Eisenhower said in an April 1953 speech, "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. The 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."
Source: Hartmann, Thom. Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights. Rodale Books, 2004. (Information on p. 154)