QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, Martin Luther King III, General Douglas MacArthur, James Madison, Thomas Mann, Joseph A. Schumpeter, Tom Daschle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Garet Garrett, Robert E. Lee, Ronald Reagan, Isaac Asimov, General Omar N. Bradley, K. K. V. Casey.

• We all have to be concerned about terrorism, but you will never end terrorism by terrorizing others.
  ~Martin Luther King III
  
  
• Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.
  ~General Douglas MacArthur
  
  

• Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
  ~James Madison
  
  
• No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
  ~James Madison
  
  
• The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
  ~James Madison
  
  
• War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
  ~Thomas Mann
  
  
• Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.
  ~Joseph A. Schumpeter
  
  
• This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war.
  ~Tom Daschle
  
  
• The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
  
• Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.
  ~Garet Garrett
  
  
• With no notice to the American people...this country entered the war...Stranger than the fact was the passive acceptance of it.
  ~Garet Garrett
  
  
• What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness god has given us in this world...
  ~Robert E. Lee
  
  
• History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
  ~Ronald Reagan
  
  
• It is not only the living who are killed in war.
  ~Isaac Asimov
  
  
• Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
  ~General Omar N. Bradley
  
  
• Wars frequently begin ten years before the first shot is fired.
  ~K. K. V. Casey
  
  

 

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