Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2007-03-02 Mar 2, 2007I don't know a more irreligious attitude, one more utterly bankrupt of any human content, than one which permits children to be destroyed.~ Daniel BerriganThis present window of opportunity, during which a truly peaceful and interdependent world order might be built, will not be open for too long. We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.~ David RockefellerWhen you get into politics, you find that all your worst nightmares about it turn out to be true, and the people who are attracted to large concentrations of power are precisely the ones who should be kept as far away from it as possible.~ Ken Livingstone Mar 1, 2007Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.~ Charles DarwinCensorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself. It is the landmark of an authoritarian regime...~ Justice Potter StewartThe weapon of the dictator is not so much propaganda as censorship.~ Terence H. Qualter Feb 28, 2007There are contingency plans in the NATO doctrine to fire a nuclear weapon for demonstrative purposes, to demonstrate to the other side that they are exceeding the limits of toleration in the conventional area.~ Alexander HaigThe limitations imposed by democratic political practices makes it difficult to conduct our foreign affairs in the national interest.~ Dean AchesonWe [the U.S.] must account sufficiently for the interests of the advanced industrial nations to discourage them from challenging our leadership or seeking to overturn the established political and economic order . . . we must maintain the mechanisms for deterring potential competitors from even aspiring to a larger regional or global role. ~ U.S. Department of Defense Planning Guide for 1994-1999 Feb 27, 2007The revulsion against war ... will be an almost insuperable obstacle for us to overcome. For that reason, I am convinced that we must begin now to set the machinery in motion for a permanent wartime economy.~ Charles E. WilsonAmerican strategic [nuclear] forces do not exist solely for the purpose of deterring a Soviet nuclear threat or attack against the U.S. itself. Instead, they are intended to support U.S. foreign policy.~ Colin GrayThe principal beneficiary of America's foreign assistance programs has always been the United States.~ US Agency for International Development Feb 26, 2007Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace. It thus repudiates the doctrine of Pacifism -- born of a renunciation of the struggle and an act of cowardice in the face of sacrifice. War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have courage to meet it. All other trials are substitutes, which never really put men into the position where they have to make the great decision -- the alternative of life or death... ~ Benito MussoliniI am much interested and deeply impressed by what he has accomplished and by his evidenced honest purpose of restoring Italy and seeking to prevent general European trouble.~ Franklin D. RooseveltFrom the standpoint of stable political conditions, it is perhaps well that Hitler is now in a position to wield unprecedented power.~ Frederic Sackett Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print