Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.
- Joseph Goebbels
There is no need for propaganda to be rich in intellectual content.
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.
- Unknown
The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.
- Marcus Aurelius
Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them.
- Alexander the Great
Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice them all to the Union; but how can I draw my sword upon Virginia, my native State?
- Robert E. Lee
War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
- Benjamin Franklin
If you want to destroy any nation without war, make adultery or nudity common in the young generation
- Saladin
Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.
- Erwin Rommel
European merchants supply the best weaponry, contributing to their own defeat.
The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
- Douglas MacArthur
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
- Sigmund Freud
So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the interest of the South. So fully am I satisfied of this that I would have cheerfully lost all that I have lost by the war, and have suffered all that I have suffered to have this object attained.
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice based on the knowledge that we belong to God and have found in God our refuge and our safety and that nothing, not even death, can take God away from us.
- Henri Nouwen
Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.
- Ronald Reagan
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- George S. Patton
If you can't afford to take care of your # veterans , then don't go to war.
- Bernie Sanders
Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans.
But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
- Rachel Carson
While I cannot take the time to name all the men in the State Department who have been named as members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring, I have here in my hand a list of 205.
- Joseph McCarthy
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
- Baron de Montesquieu
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Allah is on our side. That is why we will beat the aggressor.
- Saddam Hussein
So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished.
One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).
- Otto von Bismarck
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Let those who once fought against brothers and relatives now rightfully fight against barbarians.
- Pope Urban II
May God have mercy for my enemies because I won't.
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
- Voltaire
The reason why China suffers bitterly from endless wars is because of the existence of feudal lords and kings.
- Qin Shi Huang
In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.
- Ulysses S. Grant
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.
- Nathanael Greene
Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
- Thomas Hobbes
During a war, news should be given out for instruction rather than information.
Everybody’s at war with different things...I’m at war with my own heart sometimes.
- Tupac Shakur
We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions-bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
- Plato
We understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.
- Fred Hampton
What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.
Our resistance will be long and painful, but whatever the sacrifices, however long the struggle, we shall fight to the end, until Vietnam is fully independent and reunified.
- Ho Chi Minh
Everything depends on the Americans. If they want to make war for 20 years then we shall make war for 20 years. If they want to make peace, we shall make peace and invite them to tea afterwards.
As we come to know the seriousness of the situation, the war, the racism, the poverty in our world, we come to realize that things will not be changed simply by words or demonstrations. Rather, it's a question of living one's life in a drastically different way.
- Dorothy Day
The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it.
- Samuel Adams
With 300 Marines, you could probably take over Iraq if you wanted to and get rid of ISIS completely. Make no mistake about it, Marines are war fighters. I mean they are really good at what they do. The only time they are not good at what they do is when someone puts the shackles on them.
- Marcus Luttrell
Undertake this journey for the remission of your sins, with the assurance of the imperishable glory of the Kingdom of Heaven!
If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate, you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
- Winston Churchill
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
- Sun Tzu
