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Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.

— Hermann Göring Radio broadcast (1936)

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Guns will make us strong, butter will only make us fat. | We have no butter... but I ask you, would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat.

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