QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, William Waters Boyce, Benjamin Franklin, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Major Ralph Peters, Tacitus, William Cowper, Thucydides, Georges Clemenceau, Jean Jaques Rousseau, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ellen Key, Lord Acton, James Madison, Winston Churchill, Kahlil Gibran .

• We may extend our dominion over the whole continent...but be assured it will be at the price of our free institutions.
  ~Rep. William Waters Boyce
  
  
• I hope....that mankind will at length, as they call themselves responsible creatures, have the reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats...
  ~Benjamin Franklin
  
  

• Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
  ~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  
  
• The de facto role of the US armed forces will be to keep the world safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault.
  ~Major Ralph Peters, US Military
  
  
• The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
  ~Tacitus
  
  
• War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
  ~William Cowper
  
  
• I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.
  ~Thucydides
  
  
• It is far easier to make war than peace.
  ~Georges Clemenceau
  
  
• Man was/is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. One who believes himself the master of others is nonetheless a greater slave than they.
  ~Jean Jaques Rousseau
  
  
• It is always more valuable to report the truth.
  ~Jean-Paul Sartre
  
  
• The worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.
  ~Ellen Key
  
  
• Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice.
  ~Lord Acton
  
  
• No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
  ~James Madison
  
  
• To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
  ~Winston Churchill
  
  
• Where is the justice of political power if it...marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
  ~Kahlil Gibran
  
  

 

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