Although the words and their etymologies and uses are fascinating, what I like most about my daily email from Wordsmith are the quotes. Today's:

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. -Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. general and 34th president (1890-1969)