Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francois Fenelon

The blood of a nation ought never to be shed except for its own preservation in the utmost extremity.

Francois Fenelon

All wars are civil ones; for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.

Frank Gaffney

After America won the Cold War, some believed we had come to the 'end of history,' and budget-cutters celebrated the so-called 'peace dividend.' As a result, we ignored the toxic mixture of militant Islam and terror that ultimately led to 9/11.

Francois Truffaut

There's no such thing as an anti-war film,

Frank B. Kellogg

Each one of these treaties is a step for the maintenance of peace, an additional guarantee against war. It is through such machinery that the disputes between nations will be settled and war prevented.

Frank B. Kellogg

I believe that in the end the abolition of war, the maintenance of world peace, the adjustment of international questions by pacific means will come through the force of public opinion, which controls nations and peoples.

Frank B. Kellogg

Warned by the disaster of the last great war, the statesmen of all nations have been taking measures to prevent the return of another such calamity.

Frank B. Kellogg

There will always be disputes between nations which, at times, will inflame the public and threaten conflicts, but the main thing is to educate the people of the world to be ever mindful that there are better means of settling such disputes than by war.

Frank B. Kellogg

It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments.

Frank Carlucci

It took us 50 months in Germany, post World War II to go from the end of the war to a national election.

Frank Chodorov

Since the State thrives on what it expropriates, the general decline in production that it induces by its avarice foretells its own doom. Its source of income dries up. Thus, in pulling Society down it pulls itself down. Its ultimate collapse is usually occasioned by a disastrous war, but preceding that event is a history of increasing and discouraging levies on the marketplace, causing a decline in the aspirations, hopes, and self-esteem of its victims.

Frank Chodorov

The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?

Frank Chodorov

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.

Frank A. Clark

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.

The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected.

Gaylord Nelson

All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the U.S. we have added 1300 cities with populations over 100,000. When the environment is forced to file Chapter 11, the ecology collapses. Nations recover from war but not from a failed eco-system. The status of our environment is more threatening than all wars. It is forever.

Geena Davis

For a long time, way back in the '30s and '40s, there were fabulous female roles. Bette Davis and all those people had incredible, great roles. After World War II, something happened where it was not only "get out of the factories," but "get out of the movies." That's when women's roles started to really [change].

Gary Fisher

With psychedelics, if you're fortunate and break through, you understand what is truly of value in life. Material, power, dominance, and territory have no value. People wouldn't fight wars, and the whole system we have currently would fall apart. People would become peaceful, loving citizens, not robots marching around in the dark with all their lights off.

Gary Coleman

Politics is never about the people. It's about money. And wars. And how many heads you can step on and bodies you can step over. And I'm just not that kind of person.

Lois McMaster Bujold

The Imperial Service could win a war without coffee, but would prefer not to have to.

Lisel Mueller

I am imprinted with the whole sense of European history, especially German history, going back to World War I, which really destroyed all the old values and culture. My grandparents had been reasonably well-off but they became quite poor, living in an attic apartment.

Liu Xiaobo

The major wars that the U.S. became involved in are all ethically defensible.

Livy

War is just to those to whom war is necessary.

Livy

...war is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but in arms.

Livy

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

Lyn Nofziger

Most politicians - those people who live, eat and breathe politics - like to sit around and talk about politics and tell political war stories. Reagan didn't do that. His war stories were movie war stories and Hollywood war stories. He loved that.

Lyndon B. Johnson

In modern warfare there are no victors; there are only survivors.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.

Lyndon B. Johnson

If a single act of folly was more responsible for this explosion than any other it was the arbitrary and dangerous announced decision that the Straits of Tiran would be closed. The right of innocent, maritime passage must be preserved for all nations

Lyndon B. Johnson

We still seek no wider war.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective - taking over the South by force - could not be achieved.

Lyndon B. Johnson

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.