Fear is temporary, regret is forever.
- AnonymousWhen the Government Fears the People, THERE IS LIBERTY. When the People
Fear the Government, THERE IS TYRANNY.
- Samuel Adams
Enlighten the
people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will
vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.
- Thomas Jefferson
Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself.
There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
- John Adams
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent
revolution inevitable.
- John F. Kennedy
The only way to win World War III is to prevent it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Men rise from one ambition to another - first they seek to secure
themselves from attack, and then they attack others.
- Machiavelli
Governments need armies to protect them from their enslaved and
oppressed subjects.
- Tolstoy
Whoever has an army has power, and war decides everything.
- Mao Tse-tung
The great questions of the day will be decided not by speeches and
majority votes ... but by blood and iron.
- Otto von Bismarck
The instinctive need to be the member of a closely-knit group fighting
for common ideals may grow so strong that it becomes inessential what
these ideals are.
- Konrad Lorenz
The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies and chase them before
you, to rob them of their wealth and see those dear to them bathed in
tears, to ride their horses and clasp to your bosom their wives and
daughters.
- Genghis Khan
It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
- Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary
War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any conditions they
please upon the vanquished.
- Julius Caesar
Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy.
- Winston Churchill
In the final choice, the soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a
prisoner’s chains.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
It is better to have no son than one who is a soldier.
- Chinese proverb
War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first
battle.
- John S. Mosby, Confederate guerrilla leader
A great war leaves a country with three armies - an army of cripples, an
army of mourners, and an army of thieves.
- German proverb
We had to destroy the village in order to save it.
- An American Army officer in Vietnam
I discovered to my amazement that average men and women were delighted
at the prospect of war. I had fondly imagined what most pacifists
contended, that wars were forced upon a reluctant population by despotic
and Machiavellian governments.
– Betrand Russell
Let them hate us so long as they fear us.
- Caligula, Roman Emperor
War is sweet to those who have never experienced it.
- Pindar
If you want peace, understand war.
- Liddell Hart
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only
the second virtue.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
- Montesquieu
If we must be enemies, let us be men, and fight it out as we propose to
do, and not deal in hypocritical appeals to God and humanity.
- Union Gen. William T. Sherman to Confederate Gen. John B. Hood
History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.
- Enoch Powell, British Parliamentarian
I think we have more machinery of
government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of
the industrious.
- Thomas Jefferson
It does not require a majority to
prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires
in people's minds.
- Samuel Adams
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