QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, Jimmy Carter, Martin Luther King, Thomas Jefferson, Colonel, James A. Donovan, Marine Corps, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Karl Von Clausewitz, Marquis de Sade, William Ellery Channing, Jean-Paul Sartre, General William Tecumseh Sherman, Charles Eliot Norton, George Orwell, Robert E. Lee, Benito Juárez, John Kenneth Galbraith, Theodore Roosevelt, Admiral Sir John Fisher .

• We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
  ~Jimmy Carter
  
  
• The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
  ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
  
  

• I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
  ~Thomas Jefferson
  
  
• The dangerous patriot...is a defender of militarism and its ideals of war and glory.
  ~Colonel James A. Donovan, Marine Corps
  
  
• The next war ... may well bury Western civilization forever.
  ~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  
  
• War is the continuation of politics by other means.
  ~Karl Von Clausewitz
  
  
• Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with medals those who prove to be the most adroit killers?
  ~Marquis de Sade
  
  
• The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.
  ~William Ellery Channing
  
  
• ...Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population...
  ~Jean-Paul Sartre
  
  
• War is at best barbarism. Its glory is all moonshine...War is hell.
  ~General William Tecumseh Sherman
  
  
• The voice of protest...is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum...is bidding all men...obey in silence the tyrannous word of command.
  ~Charles Eliot Norton
  
  
• The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
  ~George Orwell
  
  
• The war...was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.
  ~Robert E. Lee
  
  
• Respect for the rights of others means peace.
  ~Benito Juárez
  
  
• War remains the decisive human failure.
  ~John Kenneth Galbraith
  
  
• That we are to stand by the president, right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
  ~Theodore Roosevelt
  
  
• All nations want peace, but they want a peace that suits them.
  ~Admiral Sir John Fisher
  
  

 

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