Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Only a debt-backed system of paper money could finance the great wars, the social improvements and the fevered dreams of the 20th century."

~ Brian Maher  

"Throughout the history of the United States, war has been the primary impetus behind the growth and development of the central state. It has been the lever by which presidents and other national officials have bolstered the power of the state in the face of tenacious popular resistance."

~ Bruce D. Porter  

"Wars in old times were made to get slaves.
The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt."

~ Ezra Pound  

"In war, truth is the first casualty."

~ Aeschylus  

"The first casualty when war comes is Truth."

~ Hiram Johnson  

"All warfare is based on deception.
There is no place where espionage is not used.
Offer the enemy bait to lure him."

~ Sun Tzu  

"Is there any man, is there any woman, let me say any child here
that does not know that the seed of war in the modern world
is industrial and commercial rivalry?"

~ Woodrow Wilson  

"War is the trade of Kings."

~ John Dryden  

"The history of war is the history of powerful individuals willing to
sacrifice thousands upon thousands of other people’s lives for personal gains."

~ Michael Rivero  

"No matter what political reasons are given for war,
the underlying reason is always economic."

~ A. J. P. Taylor  

"Wars are caused by undefended wealth."

~ General Douglas MacArthur  

"History teaches that wars begin
when governments believe
the price of aggression is cheap."

~ Ronald Reagan  

"The most extravagant idea that can be born in the head of a political thinker is to believe that it suffices for people to enter, weapons in hand, among a foreign people and expect to have its laws and constitution embraced. No one loves armed missionaries; the first lesson of nature and prudence is to repulse them as enemies."

~ Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre  

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

~ Melians  

"Every citizen should be a soldier.
This was the case with the Greeks and Romans,
and must be that of every free state."

~ Thomas Jefferson