Harry Truman actually said...

And I am saying to you, which is better, to spend 3, or 4, or 5 billions a year for peace, or to spend a hundred billion dollars a year for another war?

Context

Remarks in Chicago at the Shriners Diamond Jubilee Banquet.

07/18/1949

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