QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, A pirate, from St. Augustine, Sir Winston Churchill, Ulysses S. Grant, W. L. George, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, U Thant , Burmese UN Secretary General, Henri Barbusse, Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, Louis D. Brandeis, Pope Pius XII, Ecclesiastes 9:18, John Lennon, Julia Ward Howe, Hannah Arendt, Alfred Adler, Charles Lindbergh, Eugene Debs,.

• Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.
  ~A pirate, from St. Augustine's "City of God"
  
  
• 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.
  ~Sir Winston Churchill
  
  

• Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.
  ~Ulysses S. Grant
  
  
• Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.
  ~W. L. George
  
  
• The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power.
  ~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  
  
• In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished...There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.
  ~U Thant , Burmese UN Secretary General
  
  
• Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.
  ~Henri Barbusse
  
  
• The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.
  ~Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis
  
  
• You lose nothing through peace. You can lose everything through war.
  ~Pope Pius XII
  
  
• Wisdom is better than weapons of war.
  ~Ecclesiastes 9:18
  
  
• If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
  ~John Lennon
  
  
• The sword of murder is not the balance of justice.
  ~Julia Ward Howe
  
  
• Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people.
  ~Hannah Arendt
  
  
• Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory . . . and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles.
  ~Alfred Adler
  
  
• Democracy can only spring from within a nation itself, only from the hearts and minds of its people.
  ~Charles Lindbergh
  
  
• No war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.
  ~Eugene Debs
  
  

 

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