Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction."

~ Aesop  

"[W]e made a great mistake in the beginning of our struggle, and I fear, in spite of all we can do, it will prove to be a fatal mistake. We appointed all our worst generals to command our armies, and all our best generals to edit the newspapers."

~ Robert E. Lee  

"In order for a war to be just,
three things are necessary.
First, the authority of the sovereign....
Secondly, a just cause....
Thirdly ... a rightful intention."

~ Saint Thomas Aquinas  

"It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute."

~ James Madison  

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

~ John Randolph  

"He makes a solitude, and calls it - peace."

~ Lord Byron  

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

~ Georges Clemenceau  

"In the end it will not matter to us whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter to us greatly on what side we fought."

~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton  

"I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred -- that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt."

~ Harriet Beecher Stowe  

"[W]ar is a question, under our constitution, not of Executive, but of Legislative cognizance. It belongs to Congress to say whether the Nation shall of choice dismiss the olive branch and unfurl the banners of War."

~ Alexander Hamilton  

"Abuse of power isn't limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we’re not vigilant."

~ Clint Eastwood  

"War is sweet to those who haven't tasted it."

~ Desiderius Erasmus  

"The Executive should be able to repel and not to commence war."

~ Roger Sherman  

"There are some who've forgotten why we have a military.
It's not to promote war; it's to be prepared for peace."

~ Ronald Reagan  

"For when they shall say, 'Peace and Safety', then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon a women with child; and they shall not escape."

~ St. Paul