Every gun that is made, every warship launched,
every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a
theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those
who are cold and are not clothed. This world in
arms is not spending money alone. It is spending
the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its
scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not
a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the
clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross
of iron.
- Dwight Eisenhower
1953 speech
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty,
and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up
some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
- Plato
Tom Daschle Quotes
This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war.
--Tom Daschle, last week, when President Bush, struck Iraq
We have exhausted all of our diplomatic effort to get the Iraqis to comply
with their own agreements and with international law.
Given that . . . we have got to force them to comply, and we are doing so militarily.
--Tom Daschle, in 1998, when President Clinton, struck Iraq
Marriage is the only war where you sleep with the
enemy.
- Gary Busey
War is too serious a matter to entrust to military
men
- Georges Clemenceau
There is a war going on between law enforcement
and privacy, and privacy is losing.
- Steve Chapman
In war there is no prize for the runner-up
- General Omar Bradley
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to
win it.
- General Douglas MacArthur
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once
more, Or close the wall up with our English dead!
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As
modest stillness and humility; But when the blast
of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action
of the tiger: Stiffen the sinews, summon up the
blood.
- William Shakespeare
King Henry V , Act 3 scene ?
When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be
polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill
So long as there are men there will be wars
- Albert Einstein
I know not with what weapons World War III will be
fought, but World War IV will be fought with
sticks and stones.
- Albert Einstein
The ancient Roman expression "if you want peace prepare for war"
is from "Epitoma Rei Militaris," by Vegetius.
In Latin: "Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum."
Actual Translation:
Therefore, whoever wishes for peace, let him prepare for war.
Nuclear war would really set back cable.
- Ted Turner
The purpose of all war is ultimately peace.
- Saint Augustine
You can no more win a war than you can win an
earthquake.
- Jeannette Rankin
first woman Member of Congress
The opposite of war is not peace, It's creation
- Jonathan Larson
Rent
WAR! - Huuuh - What is it good for? Absolutely
nothing.
- Edwin Starr
The architects of this wickedness will find no
safe harbor in this world. We will chase our
enemies to the furthest corners of this Earth. It
must be war without quarter, pursuit without rest,
victory without qualification.
- Rep. Tom Delay
majority whip, US House of Representatives
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can
do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can
do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies
violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a
descending spiral of destruction....The chain
reaction of evil -- hate begetting hate, wars
producing more wars -- must be broken, or we shall
be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
(1929-1968)
This war will not be over by the next commercial
break
- US spokeperson
talking to reporters during the Gulf War
It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter.
Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no
peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale
that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears
the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are
already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What
is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have?
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be
purchased at the price of chains and slavery?
Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course
others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or
give me death!
- Patrick Henry
March 23,1775
What's the use of sending a $2 million missile
into a $10 tent to hit a camel in the butt?
- George W. Bush
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things.
The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling
which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight,
nothing which is more important than his own personal safety,
is a miserable creature, and has no chance of being free
unless made or kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
--John Stuart Mill
... going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion.
You just leave a lot of useless noisy baggage behind.
-Jed Babbin, former deputy undersecretary of defense in the first Bush administration
A strange game. The only winning move is not to
play.
- WOPR - In the movie "War Games"
after learning the futility of "playing" Global Thermonuclear War
by playing a seemingly endless series of games of Tic-Tac-Toe with itself.
But in modern war you will die like a dog for no
good reason.
- Ernest Hemingway
Either war is obsolete or men are.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
A PROCLAMATION BY THE PRESIDENT
A PROCLAMATION BY THE PRESIDENT: NATIONAL DAY OF
PRAYER AND
REMEMBERANCE FOR THE VICTIMS OF THE TERRORIST
ATTACKS ON SEPTEMBER 11,
2001
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release September 13, 2001
NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER AND REMEMBRANCE FOR THE
VICTIMS
OF THE TERRORIST ATTACKS ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2001
- - - - - - -
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
On Tuesday morning, September 11, 2001, terrorists
attacked America in a
series of despicable acts of war. They hijacked
four passenger jets, crashed
two of them into the World Trade Center=s twin
towers, a third into the
Headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense at
the Pentagon, causing great
loss of life and tremendous damage. The fourth
plane crashed in the
Pennsylvania countryside, killing all on board but
falling well short of its
intended target apparently because of the heroic
efforts of passengers on board.
This carnage, which caused the collapse of both
Trade Center towers and the
destruction of part of the Pentagon, killed more
than 250 airplane passengers
and thousands more on the ground.
Civilized people around the world denounce the
evildoers who devised and
executed these terrible attacks. Justice demands
that those who helped or
harbored the terrorists be punished -- and
punished severely. The enormity of
their evil demands it. We will use all the
resources of the United States and
our cooperating friends and allies to pursue those
responsible for this evil,
until justice is done.
We mourn with those who have suffered great and
disastrous loss. All our
hearts have been seared by the sudden and
sense-less taking of innocent lives.
We pray for healing and for the strength to serve
and encourage one another in
hope and faith.
Scripture says: "Blessed are those who mourn for
they shall be comforted."
I call on every American family and the family of
America to observe a National
Day of Prayer and Remembrance, honoring the memory
of the thousands of victims
of these brutal attacks and comforting those who
lost loved ones. We will
persevere through this national tragedy and
personal loss. In time, we will
find healing and recovery; and, in the face of all
this evil, we remain strong
and united, "one Nation under God."
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of
the United States of
America, by virtue of the authority vested in me
by the Constitution and laws of
the United States, do hereby proclaim Friday,
September 14, 2001, as a National
Day of Prayer and Remembrance for the Victims of
the Terrorist Attacks on
September 11, 2001. I ask that the people of the
United States and places of
worship mark this National Day of Prayer and
Remembrance with noontime memorial
services, the ringing of bells at that hour, and
evening candlelight remembrance
vigils. I encourage employers to permit their
workers time off during the lunch hour to attend
the noontime services to pray
for our land. I invite the people of the world who
share our grief to join us
in these solemn observances.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand
this thirteenth day
of September, in the year of our Lord two thousand
one, and of the Independence
of the United States of America the two hundred
and twenty-sixth.
- GEORGE W. BUSH
The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall
I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of
whom shall I be afraid? When the wicked, even mine
enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my
flesh, they stumbled and fell. Though an host
should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear:
though war should rise against me, in this will I
be confident.
- Psalms 27 1-3
Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope; and
the one unchangeable certanity is that nothing is
certain or unchangeable.
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Till the war-drum throbb`d no longer, and the
battle-flags were furl`d; In the parliament of
man; the Federation of the world.
- Alfred Tennyson
Fighting terrorism is like being a goalkeeper. You
can make a hundred brilliant saves but the only
shot that people remember is the one that gets
past you.
Fighting terrorism is like being a goalkeeper. You
can make a hundred brilliant saves but the only
shot that people remember is the one that gets
past you.
- Paul Wilkinson
You can no more win a war than you can win an
earthquake.
You can no more win a war than you can win an
earthquake.
- Jeanette Rankin, first woman Member of Congress
Future years will never know the seething hell and
the black infernal background, the countless minor
scenes and interiors of the secession war; and it
is best they should not. The real war will never
get in the books
- Walt Whitman
When the power of love overcomes the love of power
the world will know peace.
- Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) American Musician, Guitarist, Singer, Songwriter
The real and lasting victories are those of peace,
and not of war
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
