Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The essence of war is violence.
Moderation in war is imbecility."

~ John A. Fisher  

"No 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  

"There is no telling how many wars it will
take to secure freedom in the homeland."

~ George W. Bush  

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

~ Sir Francis Bacon  

"We must also go out and meet the enemy before he reaches our shores.
We must defeat him before he attacks us, before our cities are laid
to waste."

~ William Lyon Mackenzie King  

"War is the trade of Kings."

~ John Dryden  

"[A] possible further difficulty is cited, namely, that arising from
the Constitutional provision that only Congress may declare war.
This argument is countered with the contention that a treaty will
override this barrier, let alone the fact that our participation
in such police action as might be recommended by the international
security organization need not necessarily be construed as war."

~ Council on Foreign Relations  

"The Constitution supposes what the history of all governments demonstrates, that the executive is the branch of power most interested in war and most prone to it. It has accordingly with studied care, vested the question of war in the legislature. [If a president is successful in bypassing the Congress] it is evident that the people are cheated out of the best ingredients in the government, the safeguards of peace which is the greatest of their blessings."

~ Richard M. Nixon  

"It would be the greatest mistake, certainly,
to think that concessions mean peace. Nothing of the kind.
Concessions are nothing but a new form of war."

~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin  

"The war made possible for us the solution
of a whole series of problems that
could never have been solved in normal times."

~ Joseph Paul Goebbels  

"Politics is war without bloodshed
while war is politics with bloodshed."

~ Mao Tse-Tung  

"He who wants peace must prepare for war."

~ Claudius  

"To be prepared for war
is one of the most effectual means
of preserving peace."

~ George Washington  

"War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things;
the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings
which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight,
nothing which is more important than his own personal safety,
is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free
unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."

~ John Stuart Mill