Eisenhower had some of the greatest speeches of any American president. On the theme, also read his first major speech as President- “a chance for peace”- https

Eisenhower had some of the greatest speeches of any American president. On the theme, also read his first major speech as President- “a chance for peace”- https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/dwighteisenhowercrossofiron.htm https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/dwighteisenhowercr... 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 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 fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. —- A old soldier who was horrified at the cost of war, but keenly and sadly aware of the necessity of preparation and defense.