QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, James Reston, Charles Lindbergh, Shirin Ebadi, Ramman Kenoun, Chris Hedges, Andrew Greely, Anthony Gregory, James Madison, ames Bovard.

• In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.
  ~James Reston (American Journalist (1909-1995), best known for his work with the NY Times.)
  
  
• In a time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.
  ~Charles Lindbergh
  
  

• Democracy is not an incident that happens overnight, nor a gift that America can give to the world. It is a culture which needs peace to evolve.
  ~Shirin Ebadi
  
  
• It is frightening how the actions of a single leader can have such drastic effects on the prestige of an entire nation.
  ~Ramman Kenoun
  
  
• In war, we always deform ourselves, our essence.
  ~Chris Hedges
  
  
• Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three "small" wars...we lost all three of them and for the same reason--hubris.
  ~Andrew Greely
  
  
• Brute force is not our salvation, especially as directed by State central planning and done with little regard for the innocents...
  ~Anthony Gregory (Anthony Gregory is a writer and musician from Berkeley, CA. You can read his articles at www.lewrockwell.com)
  
  
• The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone to it.
  ~James Madison (as written in a letter to Thomas Jefferson. You can read more about this in Thomas E. Woods, Jr's article "Presidential War Powers" on www.LewRockwell.com.
  
  
• The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.
  ~Anthony Gregory (Anthony Gregory is a writer and musician from Berkeley, CA. You can read his articles at www.lewrockwell.com)
  
  
• Politicians' Logic: Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.
  ~Yes, Prime Minister (UK TV Show) (http://www.yes-minister.com/polterms.htm)
  
  
• Freedom is whatever the president says it is, pending revision.
  ~James Bovard (http://jimbovard.com/blog/2006/01/17/credo-from-attention-deficit-democracy/)
  
  

 

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