QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, John F. Kennedy, Guy de Maupassant, Thomas Carlyle, Rep. Wally Herger, Socrates, David Borenstein, Abraham Lincoln, Sen. Hiram Johnson, Sen. Robert Byrd, Richard Maybury, George Washington, John Adams, Sigmund Freud, General Douglas MacArthur, Brooks Atkinson, General Colin Powell.

• Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
  ~John F. Kennedy
  
  
• Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
  ~Guy de Maupassant
  
  

• War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
  ~Thomas Carlyle
  
  
• Why should you ask blood be spilled for a cause that is not in the interest of the American people?
  ~Rep. Wally Herger
  
  
• All wars are fought for money.
  ~Socrates
  
  
• Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them.
  ~David Borenstein
  
  
• Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
  ~Abraham Lincoln
  
  
• The first casualty when war comes is the truth.
  ~Sen. Hiram Johnson
  
  
• This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history.
  ~Sen. Robert Byrd
  
  
• Washington...has become an alien city-state that rules America, and much of the rest of the world, in the way that Rome ruled the Roman Empire.
  ~Richard Maybury
  
  
• Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
  ~George Washington
  
  
• Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
  ~John Adams
  
  
• A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.
  ~Sigmund Freud
  
  
• Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.
  ~General Douglas MacArthur
  
  
• After each war there is a little less democracy to save.
  ~Brooks Atkinson
  
  
• I want to scare the hell out of the rest of the world.
  ~General Colin Powell
  
  

 

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