QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, Samuel Adams, Ayn Rand, Ludwig von Mises, Randolph Bourne, Ludwig von Mises, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, H.L. Mencken, Leo Tolstoy, George Washington, Justice Louis D. Brandeis, ouis D. Brandeis, Carl P. G. von Clausewitz, Voltaire, Noam Chomsky, Ken Gillespie, Thomas Jefferson .

• How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
  ~Samuel Adams
  
  
• Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
  ~Ayn Rand
  
  

• The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
  ~Ludwig von Mises
  
  
• War is the Health of the State.
  ~Randolph Bourne
  
  
• Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.
  ~Ludwig von Mises
  
  
• The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.
  ~Ludwig von Mises
  
  
• Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.
  ~Thomas Jefferson
  
  
• Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
  ~James Madison
  
  
• The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
  ~H.L. Mencken
  
  
• In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
  ~Leo Tolstoy
  
  
• The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
  ~George Washington
  
  
• The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
  ~Justice Louis D. Brandeis
  
  
• The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
  ~Carl P. G. von Clausewitz
  
  
• All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
  ~Voltaire
  
  
• You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
  ~Noam Chomsky
  
  
• I am not against all wars--just whichever is current.
  ~Ken Gillespie
  
  
• They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people.
  ~Thomas Jefferson (From a letter to president Monroe, 1823.)
  
  

 

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