Famous Quotes & Sayings

Knute Nelson

It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue for at these points - Richmond and Atlanta - the enemy's main strength is concentrated.

Klaus Fuchs

In the post war period I began again to have my doubts about Russian policy.

Klaus Fuchs

Finally Germany's attack on Russia seemed to confirm that Russia was not shirking and was prepared to carry out a foreign policy with the risk of war with Germany.

Klas Pontus Arnoldson

Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery.

Klaus Kleinfeld

You can only win the 'war' with ideas, not with spending cuts

Murray Rothbard

All government wars are unjust.

Murray Rothbard

...The very nature of interstate war puts innocent civilians into great jeopardy, especially with modern technology.

Murray Rothbard

The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.

Murray Rothbard

All interstate wars intensify aggression – maximize it … some wars are even more unjust than others. In other words, all government wars are unjust, although some governments have less unjust claims…

Molly Ivins

Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women.

Milton Friedman

As a nation, we have been responsible for the murder of literally hundreds of thousands of people at home and abroad by fighting a war that should never have been started and can be won, if at all, only by converting the United States into a police state.

Milton Friedman

The present oil crisis has not been produced by the oil companies. It is a result of government mismanagement exacerbated by the Mideast war.

Milton Friedman

See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true.

Mike Thompson

I know firsthand what a vote to authorize war means to the lives of American families.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Men, do as I say and I will always lead you to victory.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

I did not come here for the purpose of surrendering my command.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Forward, men, and mix with them.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

What I desire most of you, my son, is never to gamble or swear. These are baneful vices.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

I will be in my coffin before I will fight again under your command.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

If you surrender you shall be treated as prisoners of war, but if I haveto storm your works you may expect no quarter.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

I done told you twice already goddammit no!

H. G. Wells

You are not mechanics, you are warriors. You have been trained, not to think, but to do.

H. G. Wells

This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.

H. G. Wells

This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live in it.

H. G. Wells

We must end war before war ends us.

H. G. Wells

The War That Will End War.

H. G. Wells

You have only to play at Little Wars three or four times to realize just what a blundering thing Great War must be. Great War is at present, I am convinced, not only the most expensive game in the universe, but it is a game out of all proportion. Not only are the masses of men and material and suffering and inconvenience too monstrously big for reason, but-the available heads we have for it, are too small. That, I think, is the most pacific realization conceivable, and Little War brings you to it as nothing else but Great War can do.

H. G. Wells

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

H. G. Wells

Armament should be an illegality everywhere, and some sort of international force should patrol a treaty-bound world. Partial armament is one of those absurdities dear to moderate-minded 'reasonable' men. Armament itself is making war. Making a gun, pointing a gun, and firing it are all acts of the same order. It should be illegal to construct anywhere upon earth any mechanism for the specific purpose of killing men. When you see a gun it is reasonable to ask: 'Whom is that intended to kill?'

H. L. Mencken

Whatever the label on the parties, or the war cries issuing from the demagogues who lead them, the practical choice is between the plutocracy on the one side and a rabble of preposterous impossibilists on the other.

H. L. Mencken

This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world.

H. L. Mencken

The war on privilege will never end. Its next great campaign will be against the privileges of the underprivileged.

H. L. Mencken

Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel.