QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, Ayn Rand, Randolph Bourne, Ronald Reagan, Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin, George W. Bush, Sarah Bellum, Robert Taft, Senator Barbara Boxer, Thomas Jefferson, Lydia Sicher, Robert Higgs, Ronald Reagan, Logan Kodysz, Max Lucade, Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Alva Edison.

• Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.
  ~Ayn Rand
  
  
• One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.
  ~Randolph Bourne
  
  

• Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
  ~Ronald Reagan
  
  
• It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
  ~Thomas Paine
  
  
• A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.
  ~Benjamin Franklin (Speaking to Benjamin Vaughan, 14 March 1785.)
  
  
• We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.
  ~George W. Bush (from a UN Speech in Sept 2004 )
  
  
• If you support any offensive war, consider yourself just as culpable of murder as the most insane serial killer.
  ~Sarah Bellum
  
  
• The maintenance of the right of criticism in the long run will do the country...more good than it will do the enemy.
  ~Robert Taft
  
  
• Iraq was a war of choice, not necessity.
  ~Senator Barbara Boxer (From a speech delivered Wed. July 6, 2005.)
  
  
• If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
  ~Thomas Jefferson (in a letter to William Short, 28 July 1791.)
  
  
• Wars are inevitable... as long as we believe that wars are inevitable. The moment we don't believe it anymore it is not inevitable.
  ~Lydia Sicher
  
  
• ...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery.
  ~Robert Higgs (Robert Higgs is a Senior Fellow in Political Economy for The Independent Institute.)
  
  
• The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor.
  ~Ronald Reagan (From a speech on nuclear weapons, March 23, 1983.)
  
  
• How does one prevail in war? Both sides have already lost.
  ~Logan Kodysz
  
  
• Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.
  ~Max Lucade
  
  
• I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
  ~Mahatma Gandhi
  
  
• Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
  ~Thomas Alva Edison
  
  

 

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