Editing Guns versus butter model (section)

== Quoted use of the term ==
Perhaps the best known use of the phrase (in translation) was in [[Nazi Germany]]. In a speech on January 17, 1936, Minister of Propaganda [[Joseph Goebbels]] stated: "We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns." Referencing the same concept, sometime in the summer of the same year another Nazi official, [[Hermann Göring]], announced in a speech: "Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat."<ref>{{cite book |title=The Columbia World of Quotations |publisher=Columbia University Press |year=1996 |isbn=0-231-10298-4 }}</ref>

US President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] used the phrase to catch the attention of the national media while reporting on the state of national defense and the economy.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.presidentprofiles.com/Kennedy-Bush/Lyndon-B-Johnson-Protest-at-home.html#b |title=Protest at home – Lyndon B. Johnson – war, domestic |website=Presidentprofiles.com |access-date=2016-01-23}}</ref>

Another use of the phrase was British Prime Minister [[Margaret Thatcher]]'s statement, in a 1976 speech she gave at the old [[Old Town Hall, Kensington|Kensington Town Hall]], in which she said, "The Soviets put guns over butter, but we put almost everything over guns."<ref>[http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=102939 Speech at Kensington Town Hall] ("[[Britain Awake]]"), Margaret Thatcher Foundation</ref>