Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2023-11-08 Nov 8, 2023War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.~ Georges ClemenceauIn 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 ChestertonI 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 Nov 7, 2023[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 HamiltonAbuse of power isn't limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we’re not vigilant.~ Clint EastwoodWar is sweet to those who haven't tasted it.~ Desiderius Erasmus Nov 6, 2023The Executive should be able to repel and not to commence war.~ Roger ShermanThere are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war; it's to be prepared for peace.~ Ronald ReaganFor 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 Nov 3, 2023Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.~ Ayn RandIf it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?~ Robert Anton WilsonYou can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.~ Robert A. Heinlein Nov 2, 2023When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered, and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty obtained that wise men look for.~ John Milton ... I suggest that the more the state intervenes in such situations, the more 'necessary' (on this view) it becomes, because positive altruism and voluntary cooperative behaviour atrophy in the presence of the state and grow in its absence. Thus, again, the state exacerbates the conditions which are supposed to make it necessary. We might say that the state is like an addictive drug: the more of it we have, the more we 'need' it and the more we come to 'depend' on it.~ Michael TaylorThe history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print