QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, Ludwig von Mises, Ronald Reagan, Sigmund Freud, Kin Hubbard, Ron Paul, Alexander Hamilton, H. L. Mencken, E. B. White, King Baudouin I of Belgium, Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, William Ralph Inge, Charles V of France, Antoine De Saint-Exupery, Enoch Powell.

• History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents…. A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.
  ~Ludwig von Mises
  
  
• People who talk of outlawing the atomic bomb are mistaken — what needs to be outlawed is war.
  ~Leslie Richard Groves
  
  

• Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will.
  ~Ronald Reagan
  
  
• Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another...
  ~Sigmund Freud
  
  
• Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
  ~Kin Hubbard
  
  
• The obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.
  ~Ron Paul
  
  
• Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
  ~Alexander Hamilton
  
  
• The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.
  ~H. L. Mencken
  
  
• The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
  ~E. B. White
  
  
• It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it only takes twenty seconds of war to destroy him.
  ~King Baudouin I of Belgium
  
  
• Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
  ~Albert Einstein
  
  
• Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.
  ~Benjamin Franklin
  
  
• A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.
  ~William Ralph Inge
  
  
• Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.
  ~Charles V of France
  
  
• War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
  ~Antoine De Saint-Exupery
  
  
• History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.
  ~Enoch Powell
  
  

 

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