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rifleman2000
10-13-09, 14:33
Good quotes

"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion." - Dean William R. Inge

"One sword keeps another in the sheath." - George Herbert

"Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets." - Douglas William Jerrold

"If the Nazis have really been guilty of the unspeakable crimes circumstantially imputed to them, then -- let us make no mistake -- pacifism is faced with a situation with which it cannot cope. The conventional pacifist conception of a reasonable or generous peace is irrelevant to this reality." - John Middleton Murry

"The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer." - Theodore Roosevelt

"You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil." - John Ruskin

"Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short-lived achievement." - Source Unknown

"Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading." - Source Unknown

"There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect." - Woodrow T. Wilson


Bad quotes

"There never was a good war or a bad peace." - Benjamin Franklin

"I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war." - Marcus T. Cicero

Vic303
10-14-09, 08:57
"We have surmounted all the perils and endured all the agonies of the past. We shall provide against and thus prevail over the dangers and problems of the future, withhold no sacrifice, grudge no toil, seek no sordid gain, fear no foe. All will be well. We have, I believe, within us the life-strength and guiding light by which the tormented world around us may find the harbour of safety, after a storm-beaten voyage."

Winston Churchill — Chateau Laurier, Ottawa, 9 November 1954

Armati
10-14-09, 09:56
"Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty." - Robert A. Heinlein