JFK on war

“War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.”
—John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States and  recipient of the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for “outstanding courage, endurance and leadership” in the Pacific theater in WWII.

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Eisenhower on War

“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 David Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States and Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, WWII.
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