QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, John Taylor, John Cory, Congressman Ron Paul, Lewis Mumford, Lance Cpl. Devin Kelly, James Carroll, Basil O'Connor, Murray Rothbard, Herman Goering, Leo Tolstoy, Lao Tzu<, Richard Cobden, Thomas Jefferson, Josh Billings, Edmund Burke, Albert Einstein, Noam Chomsky .

• National defense is the usual pretext for the policy of fleecing the people.
  ~Senator John Taylor (US Senator(SC), lived from 1753-1824)
  
  
• There are no politics in war. Politics is the luxury of the safe-at-home. War is a lottery of survival.
  ~John Cory
  
  

• War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.
  ~Congressman Ron Paul
  
  
• In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer...
  ~Lewis Mumford (from "Technics and Civilization")
  
  
• The reality right now is that the most dangerous opinion in the world is the opinion of a U.S. serviceman.
  ~Lance Cpl. Devin Kelly (USMC)
  
  
• We carefully nurture a spirit of detachment toward the wars we pay for.
  ~James Carroll
  
  
• The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.
  ~Basil O'Connor
  
  
• All government wars are unjust.
  ~Murray Rothbard
  
  
• The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.
  ~Herman Goering
  
  
• We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening...
  ~Leo Tolstoy
  
  
• Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.
  ~Lao Tzu
  
  
• Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.
  ~Richard Cobden
  
  
• Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
  ~Thomas Jefferson
  
  
• As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
  ~Josh Billings
  
  
• Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
  ~Edmund Burke
  
  
• The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
  ~Albert Einstein
  
  
• To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.
  ~Noam Chomsky
  
  

 

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