Random Quotes 114 & 115

These come from one of the most under appreciated American leaders in our nation's history, and my second favorite Republican U. S. President after Lincoln. He was a profit in many ways because he not only stood up to the challenge of war with courage and fortitude, he rightly reflected upon his experience in war, and saw it for exactly what it is: an evil unnecessary as we have come to use it.

“Every gun that's made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms...is spending the genius of its scientists, the sweat of its laborers,”

“We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.”

~ Dwight David Eisenhower, 1890 - 1969