Robert Reich just posted a great quote from Eisenhower on Bluesky

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On X, too, but I'm posting the Bluesky copy:

"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."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

— Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) 2026-01-10T19:00:08.716130Z

That's from Eisenhower's Chance for Peace speech, also known as the Cross of Iron speech.

Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chance_for_Peace_speech

A longer quote, from that article:

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 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 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.