QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, George W. Bush, Sophie Kerr, Eldridge Cleaver, Martin Luther King, Evan Thomas, Albert Camus, Sun Tzu, Denis Diderot, Walter Lippmann, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Calvin Coolidge, Blaise Pascal, Montesquieu, John F. Kennedy, E. M. Forster, Golda Meir.

• If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator.
  ~George W. Bush
  
  
• If peace...only had the music and pageantry of war, there'd be no wars.
  ~Sophie Kerr
  
  

• All the gods are dead except the god of war.
  ~Eldridge Cleaver
  
  
• The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.
  ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
  
  
• Wars should be over in three days or less...and the American people must be all for it from the outset.
  ~Evan Thomas
  
  
• We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives...inside ourselves.
  ~Albert Camus
  
  
• The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them.
  ~Sun Tzu
  
  
• From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
  ~Denis Diderot
  
  
• The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.
  ~Walter Lippmann
  
  
• It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
  ~George Washington
  
  
• The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.
  ~Thomas Jefferson
  
  
• No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.
  ~Calvin Coolidge
  
  
• Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man has a right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has quarrel with mine, although I have none with him?
  ~Blaise Pascal
  
  
• An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
  ~Montesquieu
  
  
• War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
  ~John F. Kennedy
  
  
• Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
  ~E. M. Forster
  
  
• There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.
  ~Golda Meir
  
  

 

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