QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, H. L. Mencken, Albert Camus, William Pitt, Ludwig von Mises, General William Tecumseh Sherman, Publilius Syrus, Rosa Luxemburg, General Smedley Butler, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Orwell, John Adams, John F. Kennedy, Quintus Tullius Cicero, Bertrand Russell.

• The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.
  ~H. L. Mencken
  
  
• The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
  ~Albert Camus
  
  

• Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
  ~William Pitt
  
  
• To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.
  ~Ludwig von Mises
  
  
• 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
  
  
• A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.
  ~Ludwig von Mises
  
  
• It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
  ~General William Tecumseh Sherman
  
  
• He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.
  ~Publilius Syrus
  
  
• Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.
  ~Rosa Luxemburg
  
  
• My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military.
  ~General Smedley Butler (USMC, Ret.)
  
  
• None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
  ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  
  
• Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
  ~George Orwell
  
  
• There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
  ~John Adams
  
  
• A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
  ~John F. Kennedy
  
  
• We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.
  ~John F. Kennedy
  
  
• During war, the laws are silent.
  ~Quintus Tullius Cicero
  
  
• Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
  ~Bertrand Russell
  
  

 

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