Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2003-04-27 Apr 25, 2003Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervour - with the cry of grave national emergency. Always, there has been some terrible evil at home, or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.~ General Douglas MacArthurWar is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement.~ James MadisonIn the name of peace They waged the wars Ain't they got no shame~ Nikki Giovanni Apr 24, 2003To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.~ George WashingtonThere are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war; it's to be prepared for peace.~ Ronald ReaganIn order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign.... Secondly, a just cause.... Thirdly ... a rightful intention.~ Saint Thomas Aquinas Apr 23, 2003All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.~ Alexis de TocquevilleThe things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.~ Theodore Roosevelt Apr 22, 2003Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels -- men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, we may never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.~ Dwight D. EisenhowerWhat's right with America is a willingness to discuss what's wrong with America.~ Harry C. BauerWhen even one American -- who has done nothing wrong -- is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril.~ Harry S. Truman Apr 21, 2003Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.~ A. Bartlett GiamattiLife's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.~ Benjamin Franklin Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print