Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master."

~ Demosthenes  

"We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it."

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower  

"The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights,
makes the most reliable soldier on earth."

~ Thomas J. Jackson  

"They 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 Debs  

"One death is a tragedy, but a million deaths are a statistic."

~ Josef Stalin  

"It may be your intent to be our masters;
how can it be ours to be your slaves?"

~ Melians  

"Endless money forms the sinews of war."

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero  

"Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil -- and if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty."

~ Aristotle  

"From 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  

"To 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. Mencken  

"The 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 Norton  

"We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home."

~ Edward R. Murrow  

"[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 Adams  

"One 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 Powell  

~ Immanuel Kant