QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, Tacitus, Colin Powell, General William Westmoreland, Ambrose Bierce, Chaz Bufe, Roman Podabedov, Howard Zinn, Smedley Butler, Justin Raimondo, Frederick the Great, Rep. Meyer London, Gregory Clark, George McGovern, Pv2 Frederick Phoenix, Georges Clemenceau, Duke of Wellington, Dwight D. Eisenhower.

• To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.
  ~Tacitus (This quote is attributed to Calgacus in the Roman historian Tacitus' "Agricola.")
  
  
• War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.
  ~Colin Powell
  
  

• Vietnam was the first war ever fought without censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
  ~General William Westmoreland
  
  
• The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
  ~Ambrose Bierce
  
  
• War, n: A time-tested political tactic guaranteed to raise a president’s popularity rating by at least 30 points. It is especially useful during election years and economic downturns.
  ~Chaz Bufe
  
  
• I learned nothing from war. War is not an activity for human beings; war is for criminals—rape, robbery and murder.
  ~Roman Podabedov (Russian anti-tank gunner)
  
  
• There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
  ~Howard Zinn
  
  
• War is a racket.
  ~Smedley Butler
  
  
• We have to show the American People that war is not patriotic.
  ~Justin Raimondo
  
  
• If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.
  ~Frederick the Great
  
  
• They talk about conscription as a democratic institution. Yes; so is a cemetary.
  ~Rep. Meyer London
  
  
• Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the past two world-wide wars would indicate?
  ~Gregory Clark
  
  
• I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
  ~George McGovern
  
  
• If I'm fighting for freedom here, and I go home and I'm opressed, what does that mean?
  ~Pv2 Frederick Phoenix, MP, US Army
  
  
• War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.
  ~Georges Clemenceau
  
  
• Nothing except a battle lost can be half as melancholy as a battle won.
  ~Duke of Wellington
  
  
• I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
  ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
  
  

 

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