QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, Theodore Roosevelt, General Douglas MacArthur, Sir Winston Churchill, Hugo Black, Supreme Court Justice, George Orwell, Leo Tolstoy, Brent Davis, Thucydides, General William Tecumseh Sherman, Voltaire, Lydia Sicher, Mark Twain, Margaret Mead, Issac Asimov, James Madison, Alfred Adler, Alfred Adler .

• It is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.
  ~Theodore Roosevelt
  
  
• Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificually induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.
  ~General Douglas MacArthur
  
  

• The statesman who yields to war fever...is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
  ~Sir Winston Churchill
  
  
• Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people...
  ~Hugo Black, Supreme Court Justice
  
  
• In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.
  ~George Orwell
  
  
• What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.
  ~Leo Tolstoy
  
  
• Peace is constructed, not fought for.
  ~Brent Davis
  
  
• Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
  ~Thucydides
  
  
• It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood...War is hell.
  ~General William Tecumseh Sherman
  
  
• It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
  ~Voltaire
  
  
• [War] might be avoidable were more emphasis placed on the training to social interest, less on the attainment of egotistical grandeur.
  ~Lydia Sicher
  
  
• Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.
  ~Mark Twain
  
  
• Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
  ~Margaret Mead
  
  
• Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
  ~Issac Asimov
  
  
• The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature.
  ~James Madison
  
  
• War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
  ~Alfred Adler
  
  
• It is always easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.
  ~Alfred Adler
  
  

 

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