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“The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.”

~William Ramsey Clark~

“The enormous gap between what US leaders do...and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments...”

~Michael Parenti~ International author and lecturer

“It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.”

~General Douglas MacArthur~

”Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.”

~Mahatma Gandhi~

“We cloak ourselves in cold indifference to the unnecessary suffering of others--even when we cause it.”

~James Carroll~ Author, Columnist-Boston Globe

“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.”

~Thomas Jefferson~

"Although ancient states were great, they inevitably perished when they were fond of war" --

~Sima Rangju~

"Rulers who destroy men's freedom commonly begin by trying to retain its form."

~Alexis de Tocqueville~

“”The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interest and his own are the same.”

~Marie Beyle~

“During war, the laws are silent.”

~Quintus Tullius Cicero~

“Fear is perhaps the greatest enemy of candor. How many men fear to follow their conscience because they would rather conform to the opinion of other men than to the truth they know in their hearts? How can I be sincere if I am constantly changing my mind to conform with the shadow of what I think others expect of me?”

~ Thomas Merton~ From No Man Is an Island [1955]

“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe~

“The dangerous patriot… is a defender of militarism and its ideals of war and glory.”

~Colonel James A. Donovan~ USMC

“Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.”

~Friedrich Hebbel~ German poet and dramatist

“There is no "smart" way to run an empire: in the end, it runs you. And then it ruins you. The smart thing to do is to refrain from acquiring an empire, and, if one seems about to acquire you, then the really smart strategy is to run, not walk, away from it.”

~Justin Raimondo~

“No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.”

~Alexis de Tocqueville~

“The State calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.”

~Max Stirne ~ The Ego and His Own [1907]

“... What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen…”

~Leo Tolstoy~

“Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.”

~Sir Peter Ustinov~

"Guard against the imposters of pretended patriotism."

~ George Washington~

“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. ...”

~Plato~

“There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than a creation of a new order of things.”

~Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince (1513) ~

“The gods do not smile on efforts to remake the world in one’s own image. They didn't smile on Napoleon when he invaded Spain and Russia. They didn't smile on Hitler when he invaded Russia. They didn't smile on Japan when it bombed Pearl Harbor. The lesson: If you are going to try to do good, you are best advised to be careful and modest about it. Don't attack anybody. Don't steal anyone's money. Say 'please' and 'thank you.' Remember that you are a fool, too – along with everyone else.”

~Bill Bonner - Publisher, Author, Financial Pundit~

“We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies—all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes. Most island universes are sufficiently like one another to Permit of inferential understanding or even of mutual empathy or "feeling into." Thus, remembering our own bereavements and humiliations, we can condole with others in analogous circumstances, can put ourselves (always, of course, in a slightly Pickwickian sense) in their places. But in certain cases communication between universes is incomplete or even nonexistent. The mind is its own place, and the Places inhabited by the insane and the exceptionally gifted are so different from the places where ordinary men and women live, that there is little or no common ground of memory to serve as a basis for understanding or fellow feeling. Words are uttered, but fail to enlighten. The things and events to which the symbols refer belong to mutually exclusive realms of experience.”

~Aldous Huxley – The Doors of Perception ~

 “The Mills of the Gods Grind Slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine."

~Ancient Pagan Saying~

“There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president.”

~Kurt Vonnegut – A Man Without a Country ~

“The selection of government rulers by means of popular elections makes it essentially impossible for a harmless or decent person to ever rise to the top. Presidents and prime ministers come into their position as a result of their efficiency as morally uninhibited demagogues. Hence, democracy virtually assures that only dangerous men will rise to the top of government.”

~Hans Hermann-Hoppe~ Democracy: The God That Failed

“In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.”

~Alexis de Tocqueville~

 “New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.”

~John Locke~

 “The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.”

~H. L. Mencken~

“Power always thinks…that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all his laws.”

~John Adams~

“You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”

~Anne Lamott, writer~

“Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.”

~Charles V of France~

“Political language ... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

~George Orwell~

“A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.”

~Aristotle, philosopher (384-322 BCE) ~

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”

~Voltaire, philosopher (1694-1778) ~

“We burned the thatched huts, starting the blaze with Ronson and Zippo lighters.... Ho Chi Minh had said people were like the sea in which his guerillas swam.  We tried to solve the problem by making the whole sea uninhabitable.  In the hard logic of war, what difference does it make if you shoot your enemy or starve him to death?”

“Colin Powell - Secretary of State - United States of America”

“The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.”

~Aldous Huxley~

“Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.”

~Henry Kissinger - as quoted in the book “Kiss the Boys Goodbye”~

 “Whoever imagines himself a favorite with God holds others in contempt.”

~Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (1833-1899) ~

“Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.”

~George Orwell~

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.”

~Sun Tzu –

“Of course the people don’t want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don’t want war: neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. 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 to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.” 

~ Nazi leader, Hermann Goering - At the Nuremberg Trials, shortly before being sentenced to death. ~
 

“The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of government power, not the increase of it.”

-Woodrow Wilson~

28^th president of the U.S., Nobel peace prize winner (1856-1924)

“When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental~men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost. All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre ~ the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”

~H. L. Mencken, in the Baltimore Sun, July 26, 1920

 “Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.”

~Percy Bysshe Shelley~

“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”

~Voltaire~

(1694-1778)

“History is a record of human stupidity writ in blood. I have often said that history is a lot scarier than Stephen King’s horror stories.”

~ Charley Reese~

“Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency.  Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.” 

~ General Douglas MacArthur ~ 1957

“The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he’s on.”

~Joseph Heller, novelist~ (1923-1999)

”Scare the hell out of the American people.” 

~ Senator Arthur Vandenburg~

Telling President Harry Truman what he needed to do in order to tax the American people to pay for the weapons and covert activities of the US National Security State that was being planned, to destroy the Russian Communist State

“Experience in politicians is not unlike experienced whores in a brothel. It’s not necessarily a desirable trait.”

~ Charley Reese~

 “A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.”
 

~ Plato~

”Concentrated political power is the most dangerous thing on earth.”
 

~ Rudolph Rummel~

”To complain of lack of leadership is, in the field of political affairs, the characteristic attitude of all harbingers of dictatorship.”
 

~ Ludwig von Mises~

”Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.”

~ Thomas Paine -Common Sense, 1776~

“Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to support deficit spending. No private embezzlers or bank robbers in history have ever plundered people's savings on a scale comparable to the plunder perpetrated by the fiscal policies of statist governments.”

~ Ayn Rand --"Who Will Protect Us From Our Protectors?" ~

“I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of... Each of those churches accuse the other of unbelief; and for my own part, I disbelieve them all.”

~ Thomas Paine~

From: The Age of Reason -To Paine belongs the honor of naming our country the United States of America. He was the first to use the name in print, and it was his own creation

“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”

~Blaise Pascal~

”I believe that if we had and would keep our dirty, bloody, dollar soaked fingers out of the business of these [Third World] nations so full of depressed, exploited people, they will arrive at a solution of their own.... And if unfortunately their revolution must be of the violent type because the “haves” refuse to share with the “have-nots” by any peaceful method, at least what they get will be their own, and not the American style, which they don’t want and above all don’t want crammed down their throats by Americans.”

~ General David Sharp ~
Former US Marine Commandant, 1966 

“As for the moral burden of guilt on the state, don’t worry. The state is a machine. It has no conscience and no soul. The state kills innocent people all the time, usually in wars.” 

~ Charley Reese~

“Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.”
 

~ William Pitt ~ 

”Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.”
 

~ Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn~

“We should... be able to see that our interest would be best served not by asking the state to promulgate our values but by forbidding the state to promulgate any values at all.  If the state can espouse some value that we love, it can, with equal justice, espouse others we do not love.”