“If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They’ll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government.”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
In President Eisenhower’s Farewell Address, on January 17, 1961, he gave this solemn warning to the nation, in regards to the rising military industry, in The United States:
”In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.”
“We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
“When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it.”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower