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Dwight David Eisenhower

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Steps have been taken for the start of a great and decisive test throughout the world. I am sure that the soldiers, sailors and pilots and all civilian populations of the United Nations will demonstrate once and for all that a living democracy is the most formidable fighting force that can be conceived

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6 June 44 - The Light of Dawn

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 government office. We must guard against the acquisition 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.