War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands. I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire that kings and queens would be proud of I will build a school-house upon every valley over the whole habitable earth I will supply that school house with a competent teacher I will build an academy in every town, and endow it a college in every state, and fill it with able Professors I will crown every hill with a church consecrated to the promulgation of the gospel of peace I will support in its pulpit an able teacher of righteousness, so that on every Sabbath morning the chime on one hill should answer to the chime on another, around the earth's broad circumference and the voice of prayer and the song of praise should ascend like a universal holocaust to heaven. Give me the money that has been spent in war, and I will purchase every foot of land upon the globe. ~William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part II, c.1590
Whom angry heavens do make their minister Studdert Kennedy, "Waste," The Sorrows of God and Other Poems, 1924 ~American Friends Service Committee, c.1978 It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers. ~"Poor Richard Junior's Philosophy," The Saturday Evening Post, 1903, George Horace Lorimer, editor In civilized countries education gets the crumbs that can be spared from armaments.
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