QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, Serj Tankian, Ronald Reagan, General Vo Nguyen Giap, Vietnam, Theodore Roosevelt, Justice, Louis D. Brandeis, George Orwell, The 9/11 Commission Report, Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Napoleon Bonaparte, Alexander Berkman, George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Alfred Adler, Percy Bysshe Shelley .

• We first fought...in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
  ~Serj Tankian
  
  
• People do not make wars; governments do.
  ~Ronald Reagan
  
  

• Any forces that would impose their will on other nations will certainly face defeat.
  ~General Vo Nguyen Giap (Vietnam)
  
  
• Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
  ~Ronald Reagan
  
  
• To announce that there must be no criticism of the president...is morally treasonable to the American public.
  ~Theodore Roosevelt
  
  
• To declare that the end justifies the means, to declare that the government may commit crimes, would bring terrible retribution.
  ~Justice Louis D. Brandeis
  
  
• Political language ... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
  ~George Orwell
  
  
• The Department of Defense is the behemoth...With an annual budget larger than the gross domestic product of Russia, it is an empire.
  ~The 9/11 Commission Report (Norton First Edition)
  
  
• Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
  ~Theodore Roosevelt
  
  
• This world of ours...must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
  ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
  
  
• War is the business of barbarians.
  ~Napoleon Bonaparte
  
  
• The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
  ~George Orwell This quote is spoken by the character of Emmanuel Goldstein in Orwell's novel, "1984."
  
• War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
  ~Alexander Berkman
  
  
• Our enemies...never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
  ~George W. Bush
  
  
• There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.
  ~Jimmy Carter
  
  
• Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
  ~Alfred Adler
  
  
• War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
  ~Percy Bysshe Shelley
  
  

 

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