“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.”
Former President Dwight Eisenhower also served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in the European Theater of War in World War II. Eisenhower was a brilliant military commander, but it’s clear from this quote that he recognizes the brutality of war as well.