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发帖数: 1709 | 1 President Eisenhower's "Iron Cross" speech and embrace the wisdom of this
great American:
"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 50 miles of concrete
highway.
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.
This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road the world
has been taking.
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 D. Eisenhower, 1953 |
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