QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, Thomas Jefferson, Helen Keller, Edward McArthur, Martin Luther King, George Orwell, Ludwig von Mises, Samuel B. Pettengill, A. J. P. Taylor, Charles Tilly, Sun Tzu, Rear Admiral Gene R. LaRocque.

• We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.
  ~Thomas Jefferson
  
  
• I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
  ~Thomas Jefferson
  
  

• The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
  ~Thomas Jefferson
  
  
• Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!
  ~Helen Keller
  
  
• It is said taht "All is fair in love and war", but then what happens when we try to live togeather later?
  ~Edward McArthur
  
  
• Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction!
  ~Helen Keller
  
  
• Nothing good ever comes of violence.
  ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
  
  
• Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation.
  ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
  
  
• War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
  ~George Orwell
  
  
• War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.
  ~Ludwig von Mises
  
  
• War--after all, what is it that the people get? Why--widows, taxes, wooden legs and debt.
  ~Samuel B. Pettengill
  
  
• No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
  ~A. J. P. Taylor
  
  
• No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
  ~A. J. P. Taylor
  
  
• Almost all war making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat- including men--from reluctant citizens...
  ~Charles Tilly
  
  
• All warfare is based on deception.
  ~Sun Tzu
  
  
• There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare.
  ~Sun Tzu
  
  
• I hate it when they say, ‘He gave his life for his country.’ They don’t die for the honor and glory of their country. We kill them.
  ~Rear Admiral Gene R. LaRocque
  
  
• War has become a spectator sport for Americans.
  ~Rear Admiral Gene R. LaRocque
  
  

 

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