We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the
Sermon on the Mount . . . Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living (cited in The Life of Mahatma Ghandi, Louis Fischer, p. 349).
Every gun made, every warship launched, every rocket fired
signifies, in a 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 cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from
a cross of iron. (Peace with Justice: Selected Addresses of
Dwight D. Eisenhower, pp. 37-38)
Give me the money that has been spent on war, and I will clothe
every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and
queens would be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every
valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a
place of worship, consecrated to the gospel of peace (The
Ensign, March 1971, p. 20).
Nicholas Murray Butler has figured that money spent for the
World War could have built a $2,500.00 house, placed in it
$1000.00 worth of furniture, put it on five acres of land worth
$1000.00 an acre, and have given this to every family in the
United States, Canada, Australia, England, Wales, Ireland,
Scotland, France. Belgium, Germany, and Russia; could have
given to each city of 20,000 or over in each of these countries a
five-million dollar library and a ten-million dollar university; and
could still with what was left set aside a sum at 5 per cent that
would provide a $1,000.00 yearly salary for over 125,000
teachers and a like number of nurses (Reprinted from Treasures
I Would Share, Heber J. Grant, Dec. 1`937)
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