QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, G. K. Chesterton, Chesterton, Alfred Adler, Winston Churchill, Colonel James A. Donovan, Marine Corps, Marquis de Sade, Ludwig von Mises, George Orwell, Sen. Robert Taft, Senator Robert M. La Follette, Robert M. La Follette, Napoleon Bonaparte, John James Ingalls, Mahatma Gandhi, Dwight D. Eisenhower, George Bernard Shaw, Ronald Reagan, Voltaire .

• A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over...is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.
  ~G. K. Chesterton
  
  
• War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.
  ~Alfred Adler
  
  

• Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter...
  ~Winston Churchill
  
  
• Chauvinism is a proud and bellicose form of patriotism...which equates the national honor with military victory.
  ~Colonel James A. Donovan, Marine Corps
  
  
• Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
  ~Marquis de Sade
  
  
• War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.
  ~Ludwig von Mises
  
  
• Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
  ~George Orwell
  
  
• Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government.
  ~Sen. Robert Taft, (R) Ohio
  
  
• In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.
  ~Senator Robert M. La Follette
  
  
• In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments.
  ~Napoleon Bonaparte
  
  
• There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
  ~John James Ingalls
  
  
• There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.
  ~Mahatma Gandhi (This quote is also often credited to a peace activist A.J. Muste.)
  
  
• There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.
  ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
  
  
• Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.
  ~George Bernard Shaw
  
  
• ...no mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.
  ~Ronald Reagan
  
  
• Together we must learn how to compose difference, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
  ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
  
  
• Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
  ~Voltaire
  
  

 

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