Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2012-10-26 Oct 26, 2012[T]he power to declare war is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature.~ James MadisonIn their great wisdom, our Founding Fathers, gathered in Philadelphia to draft the new U.S. Constitution, gave the sole authority to declare war to the U.S. Congress. ... our Founders understood that it was essential, to secure a representative form of republican self-government, that the power to declare war must be in the hands of Congress, and not in the Executive Branch. ... Nothing has transpired in the intervening centuries to justify any alteration in their wise decision. Under our Federal Constitution, only the Congress has the power to declare war, and that must remain a cardinal principle. In recent decades, we have seen an erosion of that Constitutional principle, and I fully concur that this erosion must be halted and reverse.~ Gen. Joseph P. HoarMy policy has been, and will continue to be, while I have the honor to remain in the administration of the government, to be upon friendly terms with, but independent of, all the nations of the earth. To share in the broils of none. To fulfil our own engagements. To supply the wants, and be carriers for them all: Being thoroughly convinced that it is our policy and interest to do so.~ George Washington Oct 25, 2012When the leader is morally weak and his discipline not strict, when his instructions and guidance are not enlightened, when there are no consistent rules, neighboring rulers will take advantage of this.~ Sun Tzu Oct 24, 2012A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.~ Imamu Amiri BarakaIn existing criminology there are concepts: a criminal man, a criminal profession, a criminal society, a criminal sect, and a criminal tribe, but there is no concept of a criminal state, or a criminal government, or criminal legislation. Consequently, the biggest crimes actually escape being called crimes.~ P. D. OuspenskyBy physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think and the right to think wrong.~ Robert G. Ingersoll Oct 23, 2012It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.~ Mark TwainIf we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.~ Noam ChomskyI believe in my right to be wrong, and still more in my right to be right.~ Owen Lattimore Oct 22, 2012Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on.~ Sir Winston ChurchillNearly all men can withstand adversity; if you want to test a man's character, give him power.~ Abraham LincolnThere is no subjugation so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom for in that way one captures volition itself.~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print