QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, Thomas Jefferson, Albert Einstein, John Locke, H.L. Mencken, Agatha Christie, Harry Emerson Fosdick, General Smedley Butler, Stephen Vincent Benét, Lyndon B. Johnson, Ronald Reagan, Marquis de Sade, Jean-Paul Sartre, Erasmus, Dwight D. Eisenhower .

• The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.
  ~Thomas Jefferson
  
  
• Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
  ~Albert Einstein
  
  
• All mankind...being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
  ~John Locke
  
  

• Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule – and both commonly succeed, and are right.
  ~H.L. Mencken
  
  
• One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
  ~Agatha Christie
  
  
• I hate war...for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.
  ~Harry Emerson Fosdick
  
  
• Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
  ~Thomas Jefferson
  
  
• War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
  ~General Smedley Butler
  
  
• We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
  ~Stephen Vincent Benét
  
  
• The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
  ~Lyndon B. Johnson
  
  
• History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
  ~Ronald Reagan
  
  
• What is more immoral than war?
  ~Marquis de Sade
  
  
• There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.
  ~General Smedley Butler
  
  
• Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total...because it may well involve the whole world.
  ~Jean-Paul Sartre
  
  
• Dulce bellum inexpertis (War is delightful to the inexperienced).
  ~Erasmus, the 16th-century scholar
  
  
• Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.
  ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
  
  
• May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
  ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
  
  

 

Prior | Tell us what you think | Next

Add to Your Social Bookmarks: Del.icio.us Digg Furl Reddit Simpy Spurl Y! MyWeb - Netscape - StumbleUpon StumbleUpon