Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine.
It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard
the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood,
more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell."

~ William Tecumseh Sherman  

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

~ John A. Fisher  

"Can any reasonable man be well disposed toward a government
which makes war and carnage the only means of supporting itself?"

~ Alexander Hamilton  

"It is futile to fight against,
if one does not know what one is fighting for."

~ Ayn Rand  

"Having so pledged myself, and having been elected to my senatorship upon such pledge, and not having been elected to create an organization to which we would give a promise, either express or implied, that it would have the authority to send our boys all over the Earth, I cannot support the Charter. I believe it is fraught with danger to the American people and to American institutions."

~ William Langer  

"War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it."

~ William Tecumseh Sherman  

"No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom
unless he be vigilant in its preservation."

~ General Douglas MacArthur  

"Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came?
Why then, the war would come to you!"

~ Bertolt Brecht  

"He who wants peace must prepare for war."

~ Claudius  

"Be it or be it not true that Man is shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin, it is unquestionably true that Government is begotten of aggression, and by aggression."

~ Herbert Spencer  

"In the twentieth century the number of people killed by their own governments under authoritarian regimes is four times the number killed in all this century’s wars combined."

~ John Shattuck  

"Enemies are necessary for the wheels of the U.S. military machine to turn."

~ John Stockwell  

"To judge from the history of mankind, we shall be compelled to conclude,
that the fiery and destructive passions of war, reign in the human breast,
with much more powerful sway, than the mild and beneficent sentiments of peace;
and, that to model our political systems upon speculations of lasting tranquility,
is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character."

~ Alexander Hamilton  

"All of us have heard this term "preventive war" since the earliest days of Hitler. ... A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could you have one if one of its features would be several cities lying in ruins, several cities where many, many thousands of people would be dead and injured and mangled, the transportation systems destroyed, sanitation implements and systems all gone? That isn't preventive war; that is war. ... I don't believe there is such a thing; and, frankly, I wouldn't even listen to anyone seriously that came in and talked about such a thing."

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower  

"The fatal attraction of government is that it allows busybodies to impose decisions on others without paying any price themselves. That enables them to act as if there were no price, even when there are ruinous prices -- paid by others."

~ Thomas Sowell