Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"I have never advocated war except as a means of peace."

~ Ulysses S. Grant  

"Let us recollect that peace or war
will not always be left to our option;
that however moderate or unambitious we may be,
we cannot count upon the moderation, or
hope to extinguish the ambition of others. ...
The best we can hope for concerning the people
at large is that they be properly armed."

~ Alexander Hamilton  

"A just fear of an imminent danger,
though there be no blow given,
is a lawful cause of war."

~ Sir Francis Bacon  

"Endless money forms the sinews of war."

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero  

"War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement."

~ James Madison  

"Another not unimportant consideration is, that the powers of the general government will be, and indeed must be, principally employed upon external objects, such as war, peace, negotiations with foreign powers, and foreign commerce. In its internal operations it can touch but few objects, except to introduce regulations beneficial to the commerce, intercourse, and other relations, between the states, and to lay taxes for the common good. The powers of the states, on the other hand, extend to all objects, which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, and liberties, and property of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the state."

~ Joseph Story