The quote:
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.
Who said this? Some left winger like Noam Chomsky? Nope. Maybe it was a proponent of nonviolence, such as Gandhi or Martin Luther King? No again. A religious leader, perhaps one of the popes? No again.
This quotation comes from a man who had better knowledge than most about the costs of war; a man who had led the western allies to victory over Hitler in Europe. A man who was elected president by large majorities (and was the more conservative of the two people running).
If you haven't guessed yet, it was said by 5 star general Dwight David Eisenhower.
I disagree with Eisenhower about a lot and had I been a voter back then, I surely would have voted for Stevenson. But when it comes to the quote above, I can surely say "I like Ike".
The hungry should be fed and the cold should be clothed.
Eisenhower ran as a Republican against the much more liberal Adlai Stevenson. Yet where, today, are the people echoing Eisenhower's words? Where are the calls to house the homeless, feed the hungry and clothe the cold? Because those people are still here, even in America, the supposed richest country on Earth.
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