QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John Cory, Frank Chodorov, Vegetius, Voltaire, Jim Garrison, Norman Cousins, David Hume, John Bright, Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Cory, Michael Servetus, Lenny Bloom, Ernest Hemingway.

• We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
  ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
  
  
• War is the tool of small-minded scoundrels who worship the death of others on the altar of their greed.
  ~John Cory
  
  

• The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.
  ~Frank Chodorov
  
  
• No great dependence is to be placed on the eagerness of young soldiers for action...fighting is agreeable to those who are strangers to it.
  ~Vegetius
  
  
• To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.
  ~Voltaire
  
  
• I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.
  ~Jim Garrison
  
  
• The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force.
  ~Norman Cousins
  
  
• The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny...
  ~David Hume
  
  
• If this phrase of the 'balance of power' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.
  ~John Bright
  
  
• Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.
  ~Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  
  
• No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
  ~Barbara Ehrenreich
  
  
• War is the cemetery of futures promised.
  ~John Cory
  
  
• To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man.
  ~Michael Servetus
  
  
• Phony pretexts repeated often enough become real reasons. Things that...are not true become true in the public mind simply through endless repetition.
  ~Lenny Bloom
  
  
• They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
  ~Ernest Hemingway (from "Notes on the Next War," published in Esquire Magazine, 1935.)
  
  
• War is eternity jammed into frantic minutes that will fill a lifetime with dreams and nightmares.
  ~John Cory
  
  

 

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