QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, Jeanette Winterson, Garet Garrett, George Washington, Ernie Pyle, Hugo Black, Supreme Court Justice, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Frederick Douglass, Noam Chomsky, Voltaire, Thomas Paine, Simone Weil, Senator Robert M. La Follette, Edward R. Murrow, Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Tullius Cicero .

• After every ''victory'' you have more enemies.
  ~Jeanette Winterson
  
  
• The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise.
  ~Garet Garrett
  
  

• Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
  ~George Washington
  
  
• For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit.
  ~Ernie Pyle
  
  
• Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.
  ~Hugo Black, Supreme Court Justice
  
  
• What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage.
  ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
  
  
• The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
  ~Frederick Douglass
  
  
• Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.
  ~Noam Chomsky
  
  
• It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village.
  ~Voltaire
  
  
• An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
  ~Thomas Paine
  
  
• Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms...
  ~Simone Weil
  
  
• Every nation has its war party. It is not the party of democracy. It is the party of autocracy. It seeks to dominate absolutely.
  ~Senator Robert M. La Follette
  
  
• We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
  ~Edward R. Murrow
  
  
• The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.
  ~Marcus Aurelius
  
  
• The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.
  ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
  
  

 

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