there can be no political stability and no assured peace without economic security
General George Marshall said in 1947 that "there can be no political stability and no assured peace without economic security." He said that US policy must therefore "be directed not against any country or doctrine, but against hunger, poverty, desperation."
Source: Lovins, Amory, "Real Security: Prospects for Peace," Resurgence, May/June 2003, No. 218, 12-15 See also Whole Earth, Autumn 2002, www.wholeearth.com