QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe, Thomas Jefferson, Daniel Goleman, Alexis de Tocqueville, Abraham Lincoln, Charles-Louis De Secondat, Ludwig von Mises, Pope John Paul II, William Graham Sumner, Victor Hugo, William O. Douglas, Supreme Court Justice Douglas, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Jefferson, George Orwell.

• Whether or not patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, national security can be the last refuge of the tyrant.
  ~Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe
  
  
• If God is just, I tremble for my country.
  ~Thomas Jefferson
  
  

• Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.
  ~Daniel Goleman
  
  
• No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
  ~Alexis de Tocqueville
  
  
• I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
  ~Abraham Lincoln
  
  
• The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
  ~Charles-Louis De Secondat (From "The Spirit of Laws," 1748)
  
  
• Peace and not war is the father of all things.
  ~Ludwig von Mises
  
  
• Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.
  ~Ludwig von Mises
  
  
• Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore...prove ultimately futile.
  ~Pope John Paul II (from 1/1/2000)
  
  
• If [America] becomes militant, it will be because its people choose to become such; it will be because they think that war and warlikeness are desirable.
  ~William Graham Sumner (from 1903)
  
  
• Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
  ~Victor Hugo
  
  
• The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.
  ~William O. Douglas (Supreme Court Justice Douglas lived 1898-1980.)
  
  
• We may never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
  ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
  
  
• The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
  ~Friedrich Nietzsche
  
  
• To preserve our independence...We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.
  ~Thomas Jefferson
  
  
• All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
  ~George Orwell
  
  

 

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