QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, Ronald Reagan, Jeanette Rankin, Albert J. Nock, Alexis de Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill, Ron Paul, Albert Einstein, General Smedley Butler, Stan Goff, Mahatma Gandhi, James Madison, Abraham Lincoln, General Douglas MacArthur, Edward McArthur, FA Hayek, John 8:32, H.L. Menken .

• Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
  ~Ronald Reagan
  
  
• You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
  ~Jeanette Rankin
  
  

• It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.
  ~Albert J. Nock
  
  
• All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
  ~Alexis de Tocqueville
  
  
• The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
  ~John Stuart Mill
  
  
• The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.
  ~Ron Paul
  
  
• No matter how you figure it, everything changes with time.
  ~Edward McArthur
  
  
• Force always attracts men of low morality.
  ~Albert Einstein
  
  
• War is just a racket...I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.
  ~General Smedley Butler
  
  
• War technology is science in the service of obscene anatomical vandalism.
  ~Stan Goff
  
  
• There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.
  ~General Smedley Butler
  
  
• What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?
  ~Mahatma Gandhi
  
  
• The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.
  ~James Madison
  
  
• Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose—and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
  ~Abraham Lincoln
  
  
• It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
  ~General Douglas MacArthur
  
  
• 'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
  ~FA Hayek
  
  
• And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.
  ~John 8:32
  
  
• When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
  ~H.L. Menken
  
  

 

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