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. by Dwight Eisenhower

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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." - Copy to Clipboard
-- Dwight Eisenhower

Listed in: War & Peace
Source: The Chance for Peace

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