Seems applicable today, no?

“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.
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As the line between reality and fantasy is increasingly becoming blurred, I want to be in a position to share the best of what I’ve been given. d/acc 

It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities.

It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population.
It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway.

We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat.

This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.”

- Dwight Eisenhower

We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.

This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road. the world has been taking.

It’s definitely true that Eisenhower was trying to encourage more alignment with non-violence, but I hear more of a calling of attention to the trade offs than a call to leave ourselves defenseless. Writing this off as pacifism, might be dismissing an opportunity to do the work of empathizing with those words, no?