QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, Sir John Frederick Maurice, George W. Bush, George H. W. Bush, James Madison, J. Ramsay MacDonald, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Simone Weil, George W. Bush, John F. Kennedy, David Friedman, Henry Havelock Ellis, Jonathan Larson, George Orwell, Frodo failed, Bush has the ring, Lord Byron, Mahatma Gandhi .

• I went into the Army believing that if you want peace you must prepare for war. I now believe that if you prepare thoroughly for war you will get it.
  ~Sir John Frederick Maurice
  
  
• If we don’t stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, we’re going to have a serious problem coming down the road.
  ~George W. Bush
  
  

• I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.
  ~George H. W. Bush
  
  
• It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
  ~James Madison
  
  
• We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament.
  ~J. Ramsay MacDonald
  
  
• I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
  ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
  
  
• What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.
  ~Simone Weil
  
  
• I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.
  ~George W. Bush
  
  
• Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes...can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
  ~John F. Kennedy
  
  
• The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
  ~David Friedman
  
  
• There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
  ~Henry Havelock Ellis
  
  
• The opposite of war is not peace, it's creation. ~Jonathan Larson
  
  
• Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
  ~George Orwell
  
  
• Frodo failed, Bush has the ring....
  
  
  
• War’s a brain spattering windpipe splitting art.
  ~Lord Byron
  
  
• An eye for an eye makes us all blind.
  ~Mahatma Gandhi
  
  

 

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