Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"War creates no absolutely new situation:
it simply aggravates the permanent human situation
so that we can no longer ignore it.
Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice."

~ C. S. Lewis  

"Arms observe no bounds; nor can the wrath of the sword, once drawn, be easily checked or stayed; war delights in blood."

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca  

"It is well that war is so terrible -- we should grow too fond of it."

~ Robert E. Lee  

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

~ John A. Fisher  

"We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living."

~ General Omar Bradley  

"No power but Congress can declare war,
but what is the value of this constitutional provision,
if the President of his own authority
may make such military movements as must bring on war?"

~ Daniel Webster  

"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation and foreign commerce."

~ James Madison  

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

~ Roger Sherman  

~ Albert Wohlstetter  

"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  

"You can't shake hands with a clenched fist."

~ Indira Gandhi  

"History teaches us
that men and nations
only behave wisely
once they have exhausted
all other alternatives."

~ Abba Eban  

"All that is necessary for evil to triumph,
is for good men to do nothing."

~ Edmund Burke