Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2007-10-11 Oct 11, 2007They 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 DebsOne death is a tragedy, but a million deaths are a statistic.~ Josef StalinIt may be your intent to be our masters; how can it be ours to be your slaves?~ Melians Oct 10, 2007Endless money forms the sinews of war.~ Marcus Tullius CiceroMen regard it as their right to return evil for evil -- and if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.~ AristotleFrom a “pragmatic” point of view, political philosophy is a monster, and whenever it has been taken seriously, the consequence, almost invariably, has been revolution, war, and eventually, the police state.~ Henry David Aiken Oct 9, 2007To die for an idea: it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true.~ H. L. MenckenThe voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in and keep step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent.~ Charles Eliot NortonWe cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.~ Edward R. Murrow Oct 8, 2007[America] goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example. She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom.~ John Quincy AdamsOne of the fondest expressions around is that we can't be the world's policeman. But guess who gets called when somebody needs a cop.~ General Colin PowellWar itself requires no special motive but appears to be engrafted on human nature; it passes even for something noble, to which the love of glory impels men quite apart from any selfish urges. Thus among the American savages, just as much as among those of Europe during the age of chivalry, military valor is held to be of great worth in itself, not only during war (which is natural) but in order that there should be war. Often war is waged only in order to show valor; thus an inner dignity is ascribed to war itself, and even some philosophers have praised it as an ennoblement of humanity, forgetting the pronouncement of the Greek who said, "War is an evil inasmuch as it produces more wicked men than it takes away." So much for the measures nature takes to lead the human race, considered as a class of animals, to her own end.~ Immanuel Kant Oct 5, 2007The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.~ John A. FisherNo bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.~ General George S. Patton, Jr.War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.~ William Tecumseh Sherman Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print