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I'd like to meet:
Myself 20 years ago to tell him things get better and myself in 20 years to give me hope now.
Heroes:
Some Favorite Quotes:
"They that can give up essential liberty for a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Ben Franklin
"I hope....that mankind will at length, as they call themselves responsible creatures, have the reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats..."--Benjamin Franklin
"All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones."--Benjamin Franklin
"A government big enough to give you everything is big enough to take everything you have."--Benjamin Franklin
"How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?"--Lao Tzu
"Today, I speak with you about a radical idea. It is one born from the very concept of the American soldier (or service member). It became instrumental in ending the Vietnam War - but it has been long since forgotten. The idea is this: that to stop an illegal and unjust war, the soldiers can choose to stop fighting it."--1st Lt. Ehren Watada facing the possibility of being the first Army officer to face a court-martial for refusing to fight in Iraq.
"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
(About the quote: Cook is Britain's former foreign secretary. He resigned from the British Cabinet over the Iraq War.)
"The chain reaction of evil--wars producing more wars -- must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation."--Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Any excuse will serve a tyrant."--Aesop
"Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it."--Noam Chomsky
"You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it."--Noam Chomsky
"It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so..."--Robert A. Heinlein
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."--Issac Asimov
"We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children."--Jimmy Carter
"When governments fear the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny."--Thomas Jefferson
"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be."--Thomas Jefferson
"If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest."--Thomas Jefferson
"The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force."--Thomas Jefferson
"We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest."--Thomas Jefferson
"I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind."--Thomas Jefferson
"The most successful war seldom pays for its losses."--Thomas Jefferson
"Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other."--Thomas Jefferson
"Blind faith in your leaders, or anything, will get you killed."--Bruce Springsteen
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."--H.L. Mencken
"Not only is war a form of legalized murder, but it is mass serial killing."--Sarah Bellum
"In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them."--Thich Nhat Hanh
"Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man has a right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has quarrel with mine, although I have none with him?"--Blaise Pascal
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."--Albert Einstein
"It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own."--H. G. Wells
"We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex."--Dwight D. Eisenhower
"This world of ours...must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect."--Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Together we must learn how to compose difference, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose."--Dwight D. Eisenhower
"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."--Dwight D. Eisenhower
"When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war."--Dwight D. Eisenhower
"...the role of the military is to fight and win war and, therefore, prevent war from happening in the first place."--George Bush
"War settles nothing."--Dwight D. Eisenhower
"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act."--George Orwell
"Political language ... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."--George Orwell
"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
"All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting."--George Orwell
"If the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind is controllable, what then?"--George Orwell
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."--Voltaire
"Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war."--Donald Rumsfeld
"It's good to be hated by the right people."--Johnny Cash
"O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name."--Alexander Pope
"If we dont stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, were going to have a serious problem coming down the road."--George W. Bush
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." ---Theodore Roosevelt
"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official..."--Theodore Roosevelt
"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people."--Theodore Roosevelt
"...to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day."--Theodore Roosevelt
"All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."--Voltaire
"This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector."--Plato
"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?"--Mahatma Gandhi
"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."--Mahatma Gandhi
"We must become the change we want to see."--Mahatma Gandhi
"What do I think of Western civilisation? I think it would be a very good idea."--Mahatma Gandhi
"An eye for an eye makes us all blind."--Mahatma Gandhi
"Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it."--Mark Twain
"I can tell you this: If Im ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody elses kids into a war."--George H. W. Bush
"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it." --Abraham Lincoln
"Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived."--Abraham Lincoln
"This country, with its institutions, belong to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."--Abraham Lincoln
"Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purposeand you allow him to make war at pleasure."--Abraham Lincoln
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."--Abraham Lincoln
"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people."--Howard Zinn
"Why should we hear about body bags, and deaths...I mean, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?"--Barbara Bush (ABC's "Good Morning America" March 18, 2003)
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised "for the good of its victims" may be the most oppressive."--C. S. Lewis
"Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind."--John F. Kennedy
"All wars are fought for money."--Socrates
"...no mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology."--Ronald Reagan
"Why of course the people don't want war. . . . That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or 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 peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country." --Hermann Goering, Nazi officer, during his Nuremberg war crimes trial
"Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either."--Gore Vidal
"I think war is a dangerous place."--George W. Bush
"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." --George W. Bush--Washington, D.C., Dec. 19, 2000
"I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace."--George W. Bush
"Our enemies...never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."--George W. Bush
"Any American who is prepared to run for President should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so."--Gore Vidal
"We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace."--George W. Bush (from a UN Speech in Sept 2004)
"Our nation is somewhat sad, but were angry. Theres a certain level of blood lust, but we wont let it drive our reaction. Were steady, clear-eyed and patient, but pretty soon well have to start displaying scalps."--George W. Bush
"Victory means exit strategy, and its important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is."--George W. Bush (About the quote: The future president said this in regard to Kosovo in April 1999.
"Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction."--George W. Bush 10/3/03
"These people are trying to shake the will of the Iraqi citizens, and they want us to leave...I think the world would be better off if we did leave..."--George W. Bush (on Iraqi Insurgency)
"Secondly, there are such things as roving wiretaps. Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires a wiretap requires a court order. Nothing has changed, by the way. When were talking about chasing down terrorists, were talking about getting a court order before we do so. Its important for our fellow citizens to understand, when you think Patriot Act, constitutional guarantees are in place when it comes to doing what is necessary to protect our homeland, because we value the Constitution." --George W. Bush--Buffalo, NY 4/20/04
Evidence that Bush is a lair. A year after he said this, he told us that there was nothing wrong with wiretapping without a warrent or court order. He is a moronic lair!
"There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that's just a fact."--Donald Rumsfeld
"Between dogs and cats my degree of choice is so great that it would never occur to me to compare the two. I have no active dislike for dogs, any more than I have for monkeys, human beings, tradesmen, cows, sheep, or pterodactyls; but for the cat I have entertained a particular respect and affection ever since the earliest days of my infancy. In its flawless grace and superior self-sufficiency I have seen a symbol of the perfect beauty and bland impersonality of the universe itself, objectively considered, and in its air of silent mystery there resides for me all the wonder and fascination of the unknown. The dog appeals to cheap and facile emotions; the cat to the deepest founts of imagination and cosmic perception in the human mind. It is no accident that the contemplative Egyptians, together with such later poetic spirits as Poe, Gautier, Baudelaire and Swinburne, were all sincere worshippers of the supple grimalkin." --H.P. Lovecraft
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." --Groucho Marx
"People who think they're superior are exceedingly annoying to those of us who really are."--Ronald Firbank
"I don't believe in Satan. I take responsibility for my own evil, I take responsibility for my own sin, I don't blame it on an entity." "..just as God needs us, it;s not just that we need God, God needs us. We're co workers, we are the taste buds of God and we are all connected." --Joseph Jacobs, psychic, on Coast to Coast AM
"If God is just, I tremble for my country."--Thomas Jefferson
