Favorite quotes

"It is always easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them." -Alfred Adler

"Anyone can handle adversity. If you really want to test someone's character, give him power." -Abraham Lincoln

"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living." - Gen. Omar Bradley, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff


"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and a cross." -Sinclair Lewis

"You know what's worse than a soldier dying in vain? More soldiers dying in vain. -Former Sen. Mike Gravel
"If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything." -Malcolm X

"At times it feels as if American politics consists largely of candidates without ideas hiring consultants without convictions to stage campaigns without content. Increasingly the result is elections without voters." –Gerald Ford

"What is it to serve God and to do His will? Nothing else than to show mercy to our neighbor. For it is our neighbor who needs our service; God in heaven needs it not." -Martin Luther


"Nothing good ever comes of violence." -Martin Luther

"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." - George Washington

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official..." -Theodore Roosevelt

"The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all." -Tacitus

"Peace is constructed, not fought for." -Brent Davis

"Of all the enemies of true liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded." -James Madison

"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." -George Orwell (the American equivalent of a nationalist is called a patriot).

"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?" -Gandhi

“Of course the people don’t want war. But after all, it’s the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it’s always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it’s a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger.” -Hermann Goering, Hitler's second-in-command.

"Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery. " -Albert Camus

"Sports may build character, but more often, it reveals it." -Ken Dryden

"Power tends to confuse itself with virtue and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor, conferring upon it a special responsibility for other nations -- to make them richer and happier and wiser, to remake them, that is, in its own shining image. Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence." -Sen. J. William Fulbright, from The Arrogance of Power.

"There are a lot of people out there who'd rather fight fire with fire than fight fire with water. Doesn't make sense to me." --Simon St. Laurent

"The only people I fear are those who never have doubts." --Billy Joel

"A spirit of moderation in a state of overbearing power is a phenomenon which has not yet appeared, and which no wise man will expect ever to see." --Alexander Hamilton.

"When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist." --Brazilian Archbishop Helder Camara.

"I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic." --Scott Ritter.

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Aristotle

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." -George Orwell

"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." -Voltaire

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." -Voltaire

"Those who make peaceful change impossible make violent change inevitable." -John F. Kennedy

"The worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being." -Ellen Key