Every degree of mind and spirit that I possess will be devoted to the cause of freedom...

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"To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards of men." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox President Eisenhower:
...We have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. And to do this three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishement. We annually spend on military security alone... Narrator:
January, 1961. President Dwight D. Eisenhowers's Farewell Address to the Nation. President Eisenhower:
...This conjunction of an immense military establishment and arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence - economic, political, even spiritual - is felt in every city, every Statehouse, every office in the federal government. We must guard against the aquisition of unwarranted influence - whether sought or unsought - by the military-industrial complex. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. M. L. King, Jr.:
...that "All men are created equal." JFK:
Every degree of mind and spirit that I possess will be devoted to the cause of freedom around the world