QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, Karl Kraus, Mark Twain, Dale S. Mugford, George W. Bush, Thomas Jefferson, Salvador de Madariaga, Robert H. Jackson, John Adams, Tom Van Meurs, Barbara Bush, William Faulkner, William Graham Sumner, Rodrigue Tremblay.

• War: first, one hopes to win...in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.
  ~Karl Kraus (Satirical writer and journalist. (1874–1936) )
  
  
• Be loyal to your country always, and to the government only when it deserves it.
  ~Mark Twain
  
  

• When the largest industry in the world is no longer War, I will accept Darwin's theory of Evolution.
  ~Dale S. Mugford
  
  
• Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is.
  ~George W. Bush (The future president said this in regard to Kosovo in April 1999.)
  
  
• The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
  ~Thomas Jefferson
  
  
• No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies.
  ~Salvador de Madariaga
  
  
• War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
  ~Thomas Jefferson
  
  
• It is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.
  ~Robert H. Jackson
  
  
• The real fabric of American society is not all those flags you see on people's cars...it's in the Bill of Rights and in our constitutional form of government.
  ~John Adams (composer) (This quote is not from founding father John Adams, but from the Pulitzer Prize-winning modern composer and conductor of the same name (2001).)
  
  
• Democracies become dictatorships if governments do not listen to the voice of the people.
  ~Tom Van Meurs
  
  
• Our enemies are innovative and resourceful...They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
  ~George W. Bush (From remarks by the president at the signing of The Defense Appropriations Act for 2005 (8/5/04))
  
  
• Evil men, obsessed with ambition and unburdened by conscience, must be taken very seriously--and we must stop them before their crimes can multiply.
  ~George W. Bush (from the President's Veteran's Day Speech (11/11/05).)
  
  
• Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your governmant when it deserves it.
  ~Mark Twain
  
  
• Why should we hear about body bags, and deaths...I mean, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?
  ~Barbara Bush (Mrs. Bush spoke these words on ABC's "Good Morning America," March 18, 2003. )
  
  
• So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice...
  ~William Faulkner (from his book "As I Lay Dying")
  
  
• If you want war, nurish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject...
  ~William Graham Sumner
  
  
• The world should take notice when someone...with a fanatic mind and with powerful means, receives his marching orders from Heaven.
  ~Rodrigue Tremblay (From Trembaly's "The New American Empire." Tremblay is a Professor of Economic Science at the University of Montreal. )
  
  

 

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