Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"No power but Congress can declare war,
but what is the value of this constitutional provision,
if the President of his own authority
may make such military movements as must bring on war?"

~ Daniel Webster  

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

~ James Madison  

"A man may build himself a throne of bayonets,
but he cannot sit on it."

~ William Ralph Inge  

"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."

~ Hermann Goering  

"Kings had always been involving
and impoverishing their people in wars,
pretending generally, if not always,
that the good of the people was the object."

~ Abraham Lincoln  

"Wars are caused by undefended wealth."

~ General Douglas MacArthur  

"In the name of peace
They waged the wars
Ain't they got no shame"

~ Nikki Giovanni  

"The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it."

~ John Randolph  

"You can't separate peace from freedom because
no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."

~ Malcolm X  

"The best way of avenging thyself
is not to become like the wrong-doer."

~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus  

""There never was a good war," said Franklin. There have indeed been many wars in which a good man must take part, and take part with grave gladness to die if need be, a willing sacrifice, thankful to give life for what is dearer than life, and happy that even by death in war he is serving the cause of peace. But if a war be undertaken for the most righteous end, before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime."

~ Charles Eliot Norton  

"I think that people want peace so much that
one of these days government had better
get out of their way and let them have it."

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower  

"War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men."

~ Georges Clemenceau