"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. This world in arms is not spending money alone; it is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hope of its children." --Dwight D. Eisenhower, April 16, 1953
Eisenhower's Farewell speech warned about the "Merchants of Death," the permanently entrenched and powerful war-promoting businesses he first called the military industrial complex.

"When the rich make war it's the poor that die."
-- Jean-Paul Sartre

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