Quotes about war
war men temptation
In no part of the Constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not the executive department. ... The trust and the temptation would be too great for any one man. James Madison
war judging safe
Those who are to conduct a war cannot in the nature of things, be proper or safe judges, whether a war ought to be commenced, continued, or concluded.
war justice humanity
As the war was just in its origin and necessary and noble in its objects, we can reflect with a proud satisfaction that in carrying it on no principle of justice or honor, no usage of civilized nations, no precept of courtesy or humanity, have been infringed.
war nurse facts
War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement
war opportunity people
In war, too, the discretionary power of the executive is extended. Its influence in dealing out offices, honors and emoluments is multiplied; and all the meaning of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war and in the degeneracy of manners and morals, engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
war fall agency
It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the same agency alone we can be kept from falling back.
war afterlife liberty
War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
war army government
The Constitution expressly and exclusively vests in the Legislature the power of declaring a state of war [and] the power of raising armies.... A delegation of such powers [to the President] would have struck, not only at the fabric of our Constitution, but at the foundation of all well organized and well checked governments. The separation of the power of declaring war from that of conducting it, is wisely contrived to exclude the danger of its being declared for the sake of its being conducted.
war preparation degrees
A certain degree of preparation for war . . . affords also the best security for the continuance of peace.
war enemy age
Testimony of all ages forces us to admit that war is among the most dangerous enemies to liberty, and that the executive is the branch most favored by it of all the branches of Power.
war home mean
The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people.
war america principles
It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute.
war preparation establishment
How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of every hostile nation?
war government important
The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times of peace and security.
war liberty tyranny-founding-fathers
The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
war government order
The 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. ... The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives and liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement and prosperity of the State.
war liberty bears
Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
war judging libertarian
The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature.
war upheaval violence
Freedom has more often been lost in small steps by progressive incrementalism, than it has been by catastrophic upheavals such as violence or war.
war men enough
If we only save the finger of one man, that's enough. James Longstreet
war want succeed
I do not want to make this charge. I do not see how it can succeed. I would not make it now but that General Lee has ordered it and expects it.
war fighting honorable
General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out!
war fighting dies
This is a hard fight and we had better all die than lose it.
war soldier unions
General, if you put every Union soldier now on the other side of the Potomac on that field to approach me over the same line, I will kill them all before they reach my line.
war errors truth-is
Time sets all things right. Error lives but a day. Truth is eternal.
war men soldier
I have been a soldier all my life. I have commanded companies, I have commanded regiments. I have commanded divisions. And I have commanded even more. But there are no fifteen thousand men i the world that can go across that ground.
war crazy sigh-of-relief
This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief. James Lovelock
war issues feelings
We need a more authoritative world...What's the alternative to democracy? There isn't one. But even the best democracies agree that when a major war approaches, democracy must be put on hold for the time being. I have a feeling that climate change may be an issue as severe as war. It may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while.
war america space
If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.
war issues feelings
I have a feeling that climate change may be an issue as severe as a war. It may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while.
war insane republic
South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum. James L. Petigru
war slavery sin
The Civil War was about a lot of things, but the core of it was slavery. That was the original sin. John Fund
war mistake military
In 2003, Congress should have resisted the rush to a war of choice with Iraq. I will do everything in my power to prevent us from repeating the mistakes of my predecessors. John Garamendi