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Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. ~Ludwig von Mises

War is a defeat for humanity. ~Pope John Paul II About the quote: from 1/1/2000

Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore...prove ultimately futile. ~Pope John Paul II About the quote: from 1/1/2000

The fact that certain planets are uninhabited may very well derive from the fact that their nuclear scientist are more advanced than ours. ~Salon Gahlin, Swedish author

When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace. ~St. Augustine About the quote: From "The City of God"

One reason the United States finds itself at the edge of a foreign policy disaster is its underinformed citizenry, a key weakness in democracy. ~Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke About the quote: from "America Alone"

If [America] becomes militant, it will be because its people choose to become such; it will be because they think that war and warlikeness are desirable. ~William Graham Sumner About the quote: from 1903

O, it is excellent To have a giant’s strength! But it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. ~William Shakespeare About the quote: from "Measure for Measure," Act II, Scn. ii

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime. ~Victor Hugo

Killing someone is the ultimate crime, while on the other hand, killing someone in uniform is fulfillment of duty. ~Ramman Kenoun

The best defense is no offense. ~Dr. Ivan Eland

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained. ~Mahatma Gandhi

Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play. ~Joseph Goebbels

One can...never create [freedom] by an invading force. ~Maximilien Robespierre

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. ~James Madison About the quote: This quote is from the period he served as a US Congressman (he represented Virginia from 1789-1797).

The right to revolt has sources deep in our history. ~William O. Douglas About the quote: Supreme Court Justice Douglas lived 1898-1980.

We may never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

To preserve our independence...We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. ~Thomas Jefferson

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting. ~George Orwell About the quote: This quote comes from "Homage to Catalonia," Orwell's 1936 eyewitness account of the Spanish Civil War.

If a war be undertaken...before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime. ~Charles Eliot Norton

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. ~Nelson Mandela

All it takes is a single act of aggression to permanently wound a nation's reputation. ~Ramman Kenoun

The tyrant always talks as if he's preserving the best interests of his people when he actually acts to undermine them. ~Ramman Kenoun

It’s one thing to fight for what you believe in, another thing to fight for what others believe in. ~James Wolcott About the quote: in his article “From Fear to Eternity” in Vanity Fair, March 2005

The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself. ~James Wolcott About the quote: in his article “From Fear to Eternity,” Vanity Fair, March 2005

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product. ~Lewis Mumford About the quote: from "Technics and Civilization"

We have met the enemy and he is us. ~Walt Kelly About the quote: Cartoonist, notably of "Pogo." lived 1913-1973.

Patriotism lies not in blind obedience to authority, but in the desire to search for the truth. ~Ramman Kenoun

When we fill our souls up with creativity, artistry and intelligence ... we have a better chance at avoiding the behavior that leads to destruction. ~Rick DellaRatta About the quote: Rick DellaRatta is founder of the group Jazz for Peace.

The only antidote to the poison of war is the public's courage to disagree with their leader. ~Ramman Kenoun

What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify. ~Henry Kissinger About the quote: from page 303 of his book, "Diplomacy"

There are many terrorist states in the world, but the United States is unusual in that it is officially committed to international terrorism. ~Noam Chomsky About the quote: from his book "Necessary Illusions" (p. 270)

Politics and crime are the same thing. ~Michael Corleone (from "The Godfather: Part III") About the quote: This line is spoken by Al Pacino's character in the Francis Ford Coppola film "The Godfather: Part III," script by Coppola and Mario Puzo.

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war... ~Pope John Paul II

In war, we always deform ourselves, our essence. ~Chris Hedges

Wars are the hobbies of half-informed children who have somehow come into possession of the levers of power. ~Fred Reed About the quote: You can read Fred Reed's articles on LewRockwell.com: http://www.lewrockwell.com/reed/reed-arch.html

Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three "small" wars...we lost all three of them and for the same reason--hubris. ~Andrew Greely About the quote: Andrew Greely is a columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times. You can read his articles at http://www.suntimes.com/index/greeley.html

War...should only be declared by the authority of the people... instead of the government which is to reap its fruits. ~James Madison

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. ~Edward Abbey

Why, the Government is merely...a temporary servant... Its function is to obey orders, not originate them. ~Mark Twain

The question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many. ~Dick Cheney About the quote: Speaking to the Discovery Institute after the first Gulf War, on 8/14/1992, when he was Secretary of Defense.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's service... ~John Adams

It's not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true. ~Henry Kissinger

Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order. ~John V. Lindsay

Governments use national animosities, foreign wars and the glamour of empire-making, in order to...divert rising sentiment against domestic abuses. ~J. R. Hobson

Brute force is not our salvation, especially as directed by State central planning and done with little regard for the innocents... ~Anthony Gregory About the quote: Anthony Gregory is a writer and musician from Berkeley, CA. You can read his articles at www.lewrockwell.com

Criticism in time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government. ~Robert Taft

Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone to it. ~James Madison About the quote: as written in a letter to Thomas Jefferson. You can read more about this in Thomas E. Woods, Jr's article "Presidential War Powers" on www.LewRockwell.com.

Victory means exit strategy, and it’s important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is. ~George W. Bush About the quote: Speaking on the war in Kosovo.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised "for the good of its victims" may be the most oppressive. ~C. S. Lewis

Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man. ~Jean -Luc Godard

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other. ~Thomas Jefferson

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be...surer of the noose than a private homicide. ~H. G. Wells

If you make peaceful change impossible... you make violent revolution inevitable. ~John F. Kennedy

Not only is war a form of legalized murder, but it is mass serial killing. ~Sarah Bellum

In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. ~Thich Nhat Hanh About the quote: Hanh is a Vietnamese Buddhist monk

War creates peace like hate creates love. ~David L. Wilson

War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics. ~Chris Hedges

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished. ~Johan Christoph Schiller

Today the real test of America's power and wisdom is not our capacity to make war but our capacity to prevent it. ~Dale Turner About the quote: from an article in The Seattle Times, 1/11/03.

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other-- instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals. ~Edward Abbey About the quote: A naturalist and author, Abbey lived from 1927-1989.

Our "neoconservatives" are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell. ~Edward Abbey About the quote: A naturalist and author, Abbey lived from 1927-1989.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. ~Abraham Lincoln

War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer. ~Thomas Jefferson

It takes more courage to get out of a war than it does to get into one. ~Mark Couturier

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing. ~Ayn Rand

One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part. ~Randolph Bourne

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives. ~Ronald Reagan

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry. ~Thomas Paine

A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang. ~Benjamin Franklin About the quote: Speaking to Benjamin Vaughan, 14 March 1785.

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. ~George W. Bush About the quote: from a UN Speech in Sept 2004

If you support any offensive war, consider yourself just as culpable of murder as the most insane serial killer. ~Sarah Bellum

You cannot win a War on Terrorism. It’s like having a war on jealousy. ~David Cross About the quote: Cross is a comedian, most well known for his roles on the television series "Arrested Development" and "Mr. Show." This quote is from his 2002 comedy album.

The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations. ~Anthony Gregory About the quote: Anthony Gregory is a writer and musician from Berkeley, CA. You can read his articles at www.lewrockwell.com

The maintenance of the right of criticism in the long run will do the country... more good than it will do the enemy. ~Robert Taft

Iraq was a war of choice, not necessity. ~Senator Barbara Boxer About the quote: From a speech delivered Wed. July 6, 2005.

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest. ~Thomas Jefferson About the quote: in a letter to William Short, 28 July 1791.

Wars are inevitable... as long as we believe that wars are inevitable. The moment we don't believe it anymore it is not inevitable. ~Lydia Sicher

...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery. ~Robert Higgs About the quote: Robert Higgs is a Senior Fellow in Political Economy for The Independent Institute.

The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor. ~Ronald Reagan About the quote: From a speech on nuclear weapons, March 23, 1983.

How does one prevail in war? Both sides have already lost. ~Logan Kodysz

Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional. ~Max Lucade

For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. ~Mahatma Gandhi

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. ~Thomas Alva Edison

Politicians' Logic: Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it. ~Yes, Prime Minister (UK TV Show) About the quote: http://www.yes-minister.com/polterms.htm

War: first, one hopes to win...in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost. ~Karl Kraus About the quote: Satirical writer and journalist. (1874–1936)

Be loyal to your country always, and to the government only when it deserves it. ~Mark Twain

When the largest industry in the world is no longer War, I will accept Darwin's theory of Evolution. ~Dale S. Mugford

Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is. ~George W. Bush About the quote: The future president said this in regard to Kosovo in April 1999.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. ~Thomas Jefferson

No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies. ~Salvador de Madariaga

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses. ~Thomas Jefferson

It is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error. ~Robert H. Jackson

The real fabric of American society is not all those flags you see on people's cars... it's in the Bill of Rights and in our constitutional form of government. ~John Adams (composer) About the quote: This quote is not from founding father John Adams, but from the Pulitzer Prize-winning modern composer and conductor of the same name (2001).

Democracies become dictatorships if governments do not listen to the voice of the people. ~Tom Van Meurs

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful...They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we. ~George W. Bush About the quote: From remarks by the president at the signing of The Defense Appropriations Act for 2005 (8/5/04)

Evil men, obsessed with ambition and unburdened by conscience, must be taken very seriously--and we must stop them before their crimes can multiply. ~George W. Bush About the quote: from the President's Veteran's Day Speech (11/11/05).

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your governmant when it deserves it. ~Mark Twain

The terrorist is the one with the small bomb. ~Brendan Behan

Suspicion must always fall on those who attempt to silence their opponents. ~Ian Buckley

Why should we hear about body bags, and deaths...I mean, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that? ~Barbara Bush About the quote: Mrs. Bush spoke these words on ABC's "Good Morning America," March 18, 2003.

So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice... ~William Faulkner About the quote: from his book "As I Lay Dying"

If you want war, nurish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject... ~William Graham Sumner

The world should take notice when someone...with a fanatic mind and with powerful means, receives his marching orders from Heaven. ~Rodrigue Tremblay About the quote: From Trembaly's "The New American Empire." Tremblay is a Professor of Economic Science at the University of Montreal.

Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. ~Thomas Alva Edison

The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. ~Thomas Jefferson

All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished. ~Eleanor Roosevelt About the quote: from "My Day," February 7, 1939

Working for peace in the future is to work for peace in the present moment. ~Thich Nhat Hahn

That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention. ~T.S. Eliot

Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion. ~T.S. Eliot

Where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. ~Lord Acton

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections. ~Lord Acton

Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work. ~Cesar Chavez

It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position... ~Thucydides About the quote: Thucydides was a Athenian historian, born in the 5th century, BC. Here, he is quoting the Athenian general Nikias on the proposed invasion of Sicily during the Peloponnesian War.

When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid, it can't last long." But though a war may be "too stupid," that doesn't prevent its lasting. ~Albert Camus

Only fools seek power, and the greatest fools seek it through force. ~Lao Tsu

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. ~Thomas Merton About the quote: (1915-1968)

A tyrant has succeeded in his search for absolute power when his own people fear to question his actions. ~Ramman Kenoun

When goods don't cross borders, soldiers will. ~Fredric Bastiat

Good intentions will always be pleaded for any assumption of power. ~Michael Gillespie

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. ~James Madison About the quote: This quote is from the period he served as a US Congressman (he represented Virginia from 1789-1797).

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves. ~Thomas Jefferson About the quote: Originally in a letter to William C. Jarvis, 1820. Can be found in volume of "Writings" (New York, NY: Library of America) p.493

This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force. ~Thomas Jefferson About the quote: in a letter to John Adams, 1796.

A people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. ~James Madison

Freedom is whatever the president says it is, pending revision. ~James Bovard About the quote: http://jimbovard.com/blog/2006/01/17/credo-from-attention-deficit-democracy/

Historically, the most terrible things--war, genocide and slavery--have resulted from obedience, not disobedience. ~Howard Zinn

Good leaders serve the interests of their people, while unfit leaders exploit their citizens to serve their own. ~Ramman Kenoun

You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable. ~Condoleeza Rice About the quote: Comment trying to convince mideast policy makers Russia, the EU and the UN to stop aid to the new Hamas Palestinian government; 1/30/06.

How is it possible for people to consider themselves supporters of the troops when they approve of an event that throws those troops into...peril? ~Ramman Kenoun

When people have friends and customers in other lands, they tend to take a dim view of their government dropping bombs on them. ~Terry Liberty Parker

No war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people. ~Eugene Debs About the quote: (1855-1926)

He that is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. ~Thomas Paine

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

We must pursue peaceful end through peaceful means. ~Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war. ~Albert Einstein

War comes from our being immature, fearful, and injured, and not being able to concieve of other ways of solving problems. ~Patricia Sun About the quote: Patricia Sun is an internationally renowned philosophical psychologist.

War is a failure of human intelligence. ~Patricia Sun About the quote: Patricia Sun is an internationally renowned philosophical psychologist.

[War] comes from an immature style of thinking where creativity and overview is scarce. ~Patricia Sun About the quote: Patricia Sun is an internationally renowned philosphical psychologist.

War may be only temporary, but its toll remains permanently. ~Ramman Kenoun

All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons. ~Dalai Lama

Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few. ~Lt. General William E. Odom, US Army (Ret.),

The greatest crime since World War II has been US foreign policy. ~William Ramsey Clark About the quote: William Ramsey Clark was US Attorney General under Lyndon B. Johnson

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today is my own government. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

Power is usurped from the people, first by implementing fear, then it is maintained by slandering as 'unpatriotic' those who refuse submission. ~Ramman Kenoun

Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory . . . and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles. ~Alfred Adler

In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion. ~James Reston About the quote: American Journalist (1909-1995), best known for his work with the NY Times.

Peace will be realized only by forging bonds of trust between people at the deepest level, in the depths of their very lives. ~Daisaku Ikeda About the quote: From his proposals for peace. Ikeda is President of Soka Gakkai International

Tis not, 'my country right or wrong'; tis, 'my country, that which is right to be kept right, that which is wrong to be set right' ~Senator Carl Schurz (MO) About the quote: from his senate remarks 2/29/72. published in 'The Policy of Imperialism, Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz, vol. 6, pp. 119–20 (1913).

Democracy is not an incident that happens overnight, nor a gift that America can give to the world. It is a culture which needs peace to evolve. ~Shirin Ebadi About the quote: Ebadi is Nobel Peace Laureate of Iran. This quote is excerpted from the 5/5/06 Washington Post's "Diplomatic Dispatches," by Nora Boustany.

It is frightening how the actions of a single leader can have such drastic effects on the prestige of an entire nation. ~Ramman Kenoun

If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire. ~Pat Buchanan About the quote: From Buchanan's 5/9/06 article "Why Are We Baiting Putin?"

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace. ~John Lennon

The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. ~Julia Ward Howe About the quote: Julia Howe was the "founder" of Mother's Day.

Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people. ~Hannah Arendt

Wisdom is better than weapons of war. ~Ecclesiastes 9:18

In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished...There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind. ~U Thant , Burmese UN Secretary General

The greatest protection against war is a well educated populace. ~L.L. Castetter About the quote: Castetter was a WWI veteran; this quote is from the 1930s (from p. 178 of the book "A Page A Day," ed. by Kenneth Adams, published by Authorhouse.com).

You lose nothing through peace. You can lose everything through war. ~Pope Pius XII

Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide. ~Henri Barbusse About the quote: from his book "Under Fire: The Story of a Squad" (1916). Barbusse lived from 1873-1935.

The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people. ~Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy. ~Charles de Montesquieu About the quote: from "The Spirit of Laws" (1748)

The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power. ~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media. ~William Colby, former CIA director About the quote: as quoted by Dave McGowan in his book "Derailing Democracy"

I have condemned any organizer of war, regardless of his rank or nationality. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land. ~Mark Twain About the quote: From an interview, 9/15/1900

It's truly ironic how self-proclaimed 'patriots' have a tendency to support those who seek to undermine their country. ~Ramman Kenoun

The hardest thing for me in Vietnam wasn't seeing the wounded and dead. It was watching the big transport jets come in, bringing loads of fresh new boys for the war. ~Johnny Cash About the quote: Speaking about his experience when he and June Carter went to Vietnam to entertain the troups in 1969. from 'Cash: The Autobiography,' Harper Collins, page 218

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. ~Abba Eban About the quote: Israeli diplomat (1915-2002)

Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly, I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower About the quote: from 1953

To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life... ~Woodrow Wilson

The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing falsities ~Mark Twain

The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments. ~Michael Parenti

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. ~Thomas Jefferson

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. ~Mahatma Gandhi

Wars of aggression are the most barbarous of all human endeavors and are, more often than not, the instruments of insane tyrants who hear voices. ~Rodrigue Tremblay About the quote: Tremblay is a Canadian-born economist.

Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death. ~Otto von Bismarck About the quote: Bismarck (1815-1898) was the first Chancellor of the Germany Empire from 1871-1890.

Blind faith in your leaders or in anything will get you killed. ~Bruce Springsteen About the quote: This was part of Springsteen's introduction to his 1985 version of Edwin Starr's song 'War.'

If you love this land of the free, bring 'em home, bring 'em home, Bring 'em back from overseas. ~Pete Seeger About the quote: Lyrics from Seeger's song 'Bring Em Home.'

As long as mankind shall bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst for military glory will remain the vice of the most exalted characters. ~Edward Gibbon

It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from error, it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error. ~Justice Robert Jackson About the quote: Jackson (1892-1954) was a US Supreme Court Justice 1941-1954.

Violence is not power, but the absence of power. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

A rational army would run away. ~Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu About the quote: Commonly known just as 'Montesquieu,' Charles (1869-1755) was a social commentator and thinker of the French Enlightenment.

War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions. ~Lewis Mumford About the quote: From "The Conduct of Life" (1951, republished 1970), page 13, Chapter 1, "The Challenge to Renewal," Section 3, "Diagnosis of Our Times."

How can you make a war on terror if war itself is terrorism? ~Howard Zinn

Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament--but only in enemy countries, not in his own. ~Hermann Hesse About the quote: Hesse (1877-1962) was a philosophical writer, best known for his work "Siddartha."

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. ~Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The welfare of the people ... has always been the alibi of tyrants. ~Albert Camus

Our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in...war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. ~General Douglas MacArthur

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it. ~Joseph Goebbels

Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps the most to be dreaded because it compromises and develops the germ of every other. ~James Madison About the quote: from "Political Observations," 1795.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. ~James Madison About the quote: from "Political Observations," 1795

After victory, you have more enemies.