QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, Patrick J. Buchanan, Murray Rothbard, John C. Calhoun, G. K. Chesterton, ~Marcus Tullius Cicero, Carl P. G. von Clausewitz, James Madison, Davy Crockett, Voltairine de Clayre, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Vassilis Epaminondou, Robert Higgs, Aldous Huxley, Thomas Jefferson .

• No one has deputized America to play Wyatt Earp to the world.
  ~Patrick J. Buchanan
  
  
• I think war is a dangerous place.
  ~George W. Bush
  
  

• It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.
  ~Murray Rothbard
  
  
• It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.
  ~John C. Calhoun
  
  
• The only defensible war is a war of defense.
  ~G. K. Chesterton
  
  
• The sinews of war are infinite money.
  ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
  
  
• Politics is the womb in which war develops.
  ~Carl P. G. von Clausewitz
  
  
• If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
  ~James Madison (This quote is from the period he served as a US Congressman (he represented Virginia from 1789-1797).)
  
  
• Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.
  ~Davy Crockett
  
  
• A standing army is a standing menace to liberty.
  ~Voltairine de Clayre
  
  
• When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.
  ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
  
  
• War settles nothing.
  ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
  
  
• If you kill one person you are a murderer. If you kill ten people you are a monster. If you kill ten thousand you are a national hero.
  ~Vassilis Epaminondou
  
  
• When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie.
  ~Robert Higgs
  
  
• Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war.
  ~Robert Higgs
  
  
• What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
  ~Aldous Huxley
  
  
• Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.
  ~Thomas Jefferson
  
  

 

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