Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bashar al-Assad

There is no good war.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

Denis Diderot

There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.

Dikembe Mutombo

The doctors and nurses at the Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital are saving lives every day and helping improve health care in the DRC which has been ravaged by more than a decade of war and disease.

Anwar Sadat

The only matter that could take Egypt to war again is water.

Edmund H. North

The world only remembers the winners.

Edmund Spenser

Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!

Michael Ignatieff

We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.

Samantha Smith

Well, I asked him who would start the war first.

Edmund Burke

Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

Albert Pike

Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks.

Richard Cobden

Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves.

Mark Skousen

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.

Chris Rock

You don't pay taxes; they take them from your check. That's not a payment - that's a 'jack.

Eric Hoffer

The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations.

L. Neil Smith

Those who sell their liberty for security are understandable, if pitiable, creatures. Those who sell the liberty of others for wealth, power, or even a moments respite deserve only the end of a rope.

P. J. O'Rourke

There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it comes our only basic human duty: the duty to accept the consequences of our actions.

P. J. O'Rourke

When politics are used to allocate resources, the resources all end up being allocated to politics.