Military industrial complex

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This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience... We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Military industrial complex American politics

Speaker

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Medium

Speech

Genre

Presidential farewell address Political speech

Statement Type

Warning

Language

English

Time

1961 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Eisenhower, Dwight D. Farewell address. 17 Jan. 1961, The White House, Washington, DC, USA. Broadcast.

War is capitalism with the gloves off.

Tom Stoppard

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Nature of war Military industrial complex

Speaker

Tristan Tzara

Author

Tom Stoppard

Source

Travesties

Medium

Play

Statement Type

Definition

Language

English

Time

1974 1970s 20th century

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Original Citation

Stoppard, Tom. Travesties. Royal Shakespeare Company, 10 June 1974, Aldwych Theatre, London, England, UK, act 1.

Current Citation

Stoppard, Tom. Travesties. Grove Press, 1994, act 1.

Avoid the necessity of those overgrown Military establishments, which under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty.

George Washington

Washington's Farewell Address

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Military industrial complex

Author

George Washington

Source

Washington's Farewell Address Presidential Farewell Address

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Speech

Language

English

Time

1796 1790s 18th century

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Original Citation

Washington, George. "The Address of Gen. Washington to the People of America on His Declining the Presidency of the United States." Claypoole's American Daily Advertiser. Philadelphia: John Dunlap, 19 Sept. 1796.

Current Citation

Washington, George. "Farewell Address, September 19, 1796." George Washington: Writings, edited by John Rhodehamel. Library of America, 1997.