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.

- Eisenhower

@vwbusguy it must have been nice to have a president who was not only soberly weighing the issues, but who could express himself clearly and eloquently.

@petes_bread_eqn_xls I'm not gonna defend Eisenhower on immigration, but there's a great many things he should be remembered fondly for. FDR has a similar mixed legacy.

(Before Trump, we had Eisenhower's "Operation Wetback" and that's unfortunately the official name of it.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wetback

Operation Wetback - Wikipedia