"Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat."
— Hermann Göring

January 1, 1970

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Variants: — 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.