QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, Ludwig von Mises, A. J. P. Taylor, Carl P. G. von Clausewitz, Charley Reese, General Omar N. Bradley, James Madison, Donald Rumsfeld, John F. Kennedy, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Mark Twain, General Thomas S. Power, Juan C. Mustelier, R. Buckminster Fuller, Ramman Kenoun, Charley Reese.

• Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.
  ~Ludwig von Mises
  
  
• The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
  ~A. J. P. Taylor
  
  

• War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
  ~Carl P. G. von Clausewitz
  
  
• We...are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant.
  ~Charley Reese
  
  
• War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.
  ~General Omar N. Bradley
  
  
• The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
  ~James Madison
  
  
• There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that's just a fact.
  ~Donald Rumsfeld
  
  
• Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
  ~John F. Kennedy
  
  
• Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak...
  ~John Adams
  
  
• Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.
  ~Thomas Jefferson
  
  
• Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
  ~Mark Twain
  
  
• Putting aside all the fancy words and academic doubletalk, the basic reason for having a military is to do two jobs --to kill people and to destroy.
  ~General Thomas S. Power
  
  
• Freedom is to understand, and to be unbounded by that freedom.
  ~Juan C. Mustelier
  
  
• War is the ultimate tool of politics.
  ~R. Buckminster Fuller
  
  
• The occupation and robbery of a nation occurs under the illusion of freeing its citizens from brutal oppression.
  ~Ramman Kenoun
  
  
• The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.
  ~Charley Reese
  
  

 

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