QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, Martin Luther King, Barbara Tuchman, John T. Flynn, Robert M. La Follette, Marie Beyle, Theodore Roosevelt, Benjamin Franklin, Ernie Pyle, Robert A. Heinlein, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lois McMaster Bujold, Plato, Jose Narosky, Barbara Jordan, Butler Shaffer, .

• The chain reaction of evil--wars producing more wars -- must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
  ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
  
  
• War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
  – Barbara Tuchman
  
  

• Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control the government or resources of another people.
  ~John T. Flynn
  
  
• Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.
  ~Senator Robert M. La Follette
  
  
• The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
  ~Marie Beyle
  
  
• Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official...
  ~Theodore Roosevelt
  
  
• Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
  ~Benjamin Franklin
  
  
• I've been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great.
  ~Ernie Pyle
  
  
• It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so...
  ~Robert A. Heinlein Sounds a bit like president Bush (2000-2008)
  
  
• A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
  ~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  
  
• We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
  ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
  
  
• War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.
  ~Lois McMaster Bujold
  
  
• Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
  ~Plato
  
  
• In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.
  ~Jose Narosky
  
  
• What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.
  ~Barbara Jordan
  
  
• The state has, in order to control us, introduced division into our thinking, so that we come to distrust others and look to the state for protection.
  ~Butler Shaffer
  
  

 

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