Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear-kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor-with the cry of grave national emergency. “Our swollen budgets constantly have been misrepresented to the public. Douglas MacArthur warned of the pestilential impact of military spending on the nation’s democracy in 1957 when he said: We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.” We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement.

It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. “This world in arms is not spending money alone.

“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. conduct in both domestic and world affairs if its decency and democracy were to survive: President Dwight Eisenhower in his first major presidential speech, The Cross of Iron, on April 16, 1953, laid out several critical precepts that ought to guide U.S.

Great patriots have warned Americans of the possibility an iron curtain of authoritarianism could descend upon this country, making America over in the image of its fascist enemies.

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