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09-28-2010, 12:42 PM
I hate it when they say, ‘He gave his life for his country.’ They don’t die for the honor and glory of their country. We kill them.
~Rear Admiral Gene R. LaRocque
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
~Albert Camus
Why should you ask blood be spilled for a cause that is not in the interest of the American people?
~Rep. Wally Herger
Patriotism at the expense of another nation is as wicked as racism at the expense of another race...Let us resolve to be patriots always, nationalists never.
~Rev. William Sloane Coffin
Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.
~Richard Cobden
This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.
~Robert F. Kennedy
Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war.
~Robert Higgs
When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie.
~Robert Higgs
There were no international terrorists in Iraq until we went in. It was we who gave the perfect conditions in which Al Qaeda could thrive.
~Robin Cook
Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
~Ronald Reagan
The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.
~Ron Paul
War--after all, what is it that the people get? Why--widows, taxes, wooden legs and debt.
~Samuel B. Pettengill
Iraq was a war of choice, not necessity.
~Senator Barbara Boxer
The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements.
~Senator James W. Fulbright
~Rear Admiral Gene R. LaRocque
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
~Albert Camus
Why should you ask blood be spilled for a cause that is not in the interest of the American people?
~Rep. Wally Herger
Patriotism at the expense of another nation is as wicked as racism at the expense of another race...Let us resolve to be patriots always, nationalists never.
~Rev. William Sloane Coffin
Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.
~Richard Cobden
This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.
~Robert F. Kennedy
Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war.
~Robert Higgs
When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie.
~Robert Higgs
There were no international terrorists in Iraq until we went in. It was we who gave the perfect conditions in which Al Qaeda could thrive.
~Robin Cook
Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
~Ronald Reagan
The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.
~Ron Paul
War--after all, what is it that the people get? Why--widows, taxes, wooden legs and debt.
~Samuel B. Pettengill
Iraq was a war of choice, not necessity.
~Senator Barbara Boxer
The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements.
~Senator James W. Fulbright