I have been reading, and listening to, a speech in 1953 by President Eisenhower, in those times before evil men sent scuttling minions forth from the crypts of power to speak to us as though we were cowards and fools. If you want to see the elegance and depth with which the president used to speak, follow this link.

What can the world, or any nation in it, hope for if no turning is found on this dread road?

The worst to be feared and the best to be expected can be simply stated.

The worst is atomic war.

The best would be this: a life of perpetual fear and tension; a burden of arms draining the wealth and the labor of all peoples; a wasting of strength that defies the American system or the Soviet system or any system to achieve true abundance and happiness for the peoples of this earth.
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.