Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2003-08-07 Aug 7, 2003Military glory -- the attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood.~ Abraham LincolnEndless money forms the sinews of war.~ Marcus Tullius CiceroThe essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.~ John A. FisherWhenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.~ Harry S. Truman Aug 6, 2003Is there any man, is there any woman, let me say any child here that does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?~ Woodrow WilsonHow you can win the population for war: At first, the statesman will invent cheap lying, that impute the guilt of the attacked nation, and each person will be happy over this deceit, that calm the conscience. It will study it detailed and refuse to test arguments of the other opinion. So he will convince step for step even therefrom that the war is just and thank God, that he, after this process of grotesque even deceit, can sleep better.~ Mark TwainNo one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies.~ Salvador de Madariaga Aug 5, 2003They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command. But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.~ Eugene DebsWar is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.~ Karl von ClausewitzPolitics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.~ Mao Tse-Tung Aug 1, 2003To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.~ Thomas Babington MacaulayHuman rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign. ... You must weep that your own government, at present, seems blind to this truth.~ Mother TeresaI believe in my right to be wrong, and still more in my right to be right.~ Owen Lattimore Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print