It’s quite fun to fight ’em, you know. It’s a hell of a hoot. It’s fun to shoot some people. I’ll be right up front with you, I like brawling.
~Lt. Gen. James Mattis, USMC
About the quote: Comments from 2/1/05 conference in San Diego, California. Lt. Mattis commanded troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Do they think if we destroy our freedoms for the terrorists they will no longer have a reason to attack us?
~Ron Paul
Terror is a tactic. We can not wage “war” against a tactic.
~Ron Paul
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
If you sacrifice liberty for security, you will lose both.
~Ron Paul
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).
The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements.
~Senator James W. Fulbright
National defense is the usual pretext for the policy of fleecing the people.
~Senator John Taylor
About the quote: US Senator(SC), lived from 1753-1824
Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.
~Senator Robert M. La Follette
Every nation has its war party. It is not the party of democracy. It is the party of autocracy. It seeks to dominate absolutely.
~Senator Robert M. La Follette
In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.
~Senator Robert M. La Follette
If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another…after the war is on.
~Senator Robert M. La Follette
The first casualty when war comes is the truth.
~Sen. Hiram Johnson
The price of empire is America’s soul, and that price is too high.
~Sen. J. William Fulbright (Ark.)
Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government.
~Sen. Robert Taft, (R) Ohio
“Everyone experiences fear in his or her life. It’s a human emotion, and we experience it…. The American people are by nature not a fearful people. And, ever since 9/11, there’s been an effort to try to instill fear in Americans so that America’s manipulated to go into wars against countries that have no ability to attack us and to continue to promote regime change around the world and to promote an American imperium, which is just absolutely contrary to the reason why this country was founded, contrary to our best interests, and contrary to a secure future — not only for America but for the world.”
Dennis Kucinich