Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2003-03-20 Mar 20, 2003No power but Congress can declare war, but what is the value of this constitutional provision, if the President of his own authority may make such military movements as must bring on war?~ Daniel WebsterThe 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. It has accordingly with studied care, vested the question of war in the legislature. [If a president is successful in bypassing the Congress] it is evident that the people are cheated out of the best ingredients in the government, the safeguards of peace which is the greatest of their blessings.~ Richard M. Nixon Mar 19, 2003War is the trade of Kings.~ John DrydenWhen you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.~ Sir Winston ChurchillDiplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it.~ Will Rogers Mar 18, 2003The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.~ John LockeThose who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.~ ProverbThere is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence.~ Robert G. Ingersoll Mar 17, 2003The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelNothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity.~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.Knowledge is power.~ Sir Francis Bacon Mar 14, 2003Fascism conceives of the State as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative, only to be conceived in their relation to the State.~ Benito MussoliniAll political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest.~ Friedrich August von Hayek Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print