Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2025-06-25 Jun 25, 2025No 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 WebsterThe 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 MadisonThe Executive should be able to repel and not to commence war.~ Roger Sherman Jun 24, 2025We must contemplate some extremely unpleasant possibilities, just because we want to avoid them and achieve something better. Nobody, however, likes to think about anything unpleasant, even to avoid it. And so the crucial problem of thermonuclear war is frequently dispatched with the label 'War is unthinkable' -- which, translated freely, means we don't want to think about it.~ Albert WohlstetterHe who wants peace must prepare for war.~ ClaudiusTo be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.~ George Washington Jun 23, 2025You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.~ Indira GandhiHistory teaches us that men and nations only behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.~ Abba EbanAll that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.~ Edmund Burke Jun 20, 2025Let us disappoint the Men who are raising themselves upon the ruin of this Country.~ Samuel AdamsIt was the Republican Party that demolished the shining city on the hill my father built. It was the Republican Party that was 100 percent responsible for the end of the Reagan Revolution...[T]he Republican Party abandoned the trail leading to that shining city on the hill to become itself a quasi-Left-wing organization which looks at the Democrats’ welfare programs and says ‘me too’.~ Michael ReaganA regime, an established order, is rarely overthrown by a revolutionary movement; usually a regime collapses of its own weakness and corruption and then a revolutionary movement enters among the ruins and takes over the powers that have become vacant.~ Walter Lippmann Jun 19, 2025The newspaper announced that the mission of the Red Guards was to rid the country of the ‘Four Olds’: old culture, old customs, old habits, and old ways of thinking. There was no clear definition of ‘old’; it was left to the Red Guards to decide. First of all, they changed street names.~ Nien ChengDay and night the city resounded with the loud noise of drums and gongs … looting and the ransacking of private homes … The violence of the Red Guards seemed to have escalated. … Articles in the newspapers … encouraged the Red Guards and congratulated them on their vandalism. They were … exhorted to be fearless in their work of toppling the old world and building a new one based on Mao’s teachings. ~ Nien Cheng[A]fter unleashing the Red Guards … to serve his political purposes, Mao Zedong was no longer able to control them.~ Nien Cheng Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print