Cross of Iron

Posted on February 20th, 2007 by April.
Categories: Democracy, History, Republican, Speech, War.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower

Chance for Peace

"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. [...] This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron."

Dwight D. Eisenhower
April 16, 1953

 
 

U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower speaking before the
American Society for Newspaper Editors on April 16, 1953.

 
 

Resources

Miller Center of Public Affairs: "Chance for Peace" Speech (full text)
Internet Archive: "Chance for Peace" Speech (audio)

Presidential Library: Dwight D. Eisenhower Library

Wikipedia: Dwight D. Eisenhower
Wikipedia: The Cold War

Miscellaneous: American Society for Newspaper Editors

 
 
-April
 
 

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