QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, Benjamin Harrison, Ramman Kenoun, Martin Luther King, Jr., Mark Twain, Euripides, Oriana Fallaci, Bernard M. Baruch, Ludwig von Mises, John Quincy Adams, Frank Chodorov, Howard Zinn, General Omar N. Bradley, Ludwig von Mises, Marcus Aurelius, Karl Hess .

• We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
  ~Benjamin Harrison
  
  

• A man who kills on his own is a murderer. A man who kills at his government's request is a national hero.
  ~Ramman Kenoun
  
  
• Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
  ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
  
  
• Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it.
  ~Mark Twain
  
  
• God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.
  ~Euripides
  
  
• Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?
  ~Oriana Fallaci
  
  
• Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
  ~Bernard M. Baruch
  
  
• Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.
  ~Ludwig von Mises
  
  
• America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.
  ~John Quincy Adams
  
  
• The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?
  ~Frank Chodorov
  
  
• One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.
  ~Howard Zinn
  
  
• We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
  ~General Omar N. Bradley
  
  
• Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
  ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
  
  
• Men are fighting...because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.
  ~Ludwig von Mises
  
  
• Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
  ~Marcus Aurelius
  
  
• Vietnam should remind conservatives that whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder.
  ~Karl Hess
  
  

 

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