QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, Plato, Friedrich Hebbel, Sir Peter Ustinov, Louis D. Brandeis, Dorothy Thompson, Donna Cheverton, Jacobo Timerman, John Cory, Ramman Kenoun, Murray Rothbard, John Greenleaf Whittier, Hugh Mann, Goethe, Edward Everett, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Senator James W. Fulbright, Butler Shaffer, Francis John McConnell, .

• This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
  ~Plato
  
  
• Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
  ~Friedrich Hebbel, German poet and dramatist
  
  

• Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.
  ~Sir Peter Ustinov
  
  
• The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
  ~Louis D. Brandeis
  
  
• Peace...is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle.
  ~Dorothy Thompson
  
  
• We believed ourselves indestructable... watching only the madmen outside our frontiers, and we remained defenseless against our own madmen.
  ~Jacobo Timerman
  
  
• There is no morality in war. Morality is the privilege of those judging from the distance. War is only death and destruction...
  ~John Cory
  
  
• In war, there are no winners.
  ~Ramman Kenoun
  
  
• ...The very nature of interstate war puts innocent civilians into great jeopardy, especially with modern technology.
  ~Murray Rothbard
  
  
• Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew.
  ~John Greenleaf Whittier
  
  
• It's more humane to cure your enemies than to kill them.
  ~Hugh Mann
  
  
• There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance.
  ~Goethe
  
  
• Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
  ~Edward Everett
  
  
• We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
  ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
  
  
• The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements.
  ~Senator James W. Fulbright
  
  
• Coercive practices that threaten our neighbor(s) also threaten us.
  ~Butler Shaffer
  
  
• We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.
  ~Francis John McConnell
  
  

 

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