QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, Ernest Hemingway, Bennett Cerf, Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, H. G. Wells, Gary Wills, Clarence Darrow, Simone de Beauvoir, Herodotus, Winston Churchill, Pyrrhus of Epirus, George Washington, H. L. Mencken, John Quincy Adams, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Jefferson.

• No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.
  ~Ernest Hemingway
  
  
• The Atomic Age is here to stay--but are we?
  ~Bennett Cerf
  
  

• You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.
  ~Barry Goldwater
  
  
• We must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.
  ~Ronald Reagan
  
  
• It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
  ~H. G. Wells
  
  
• Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
  ~Gary Wills
  
  
• True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
  ~Clarence Darrow
  
  
• If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
  ~Simone de Beauvoir
  
  
• In peace, sons bury their fathers; in war, fathers bury their sons.
  ~Herodotus
  
  
• When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
  ~Winston Churchill
  
  
• One more such victory and we are undone.
  ~Pyrrhus of Epirus
  
  
• Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
  ~George Washington
  
  
• It is our true policy to steer clear of entangling alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
  ~George Washington
  
  
• I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
  ~H. L. Mencken
  
  
• America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
  ~John Quincy Adams
  
  
• The coward threatens when he is safe.
  ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  
  
• A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
  ~Thomas Jefferson
  
  

 

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