Memorial Day Sayings

I have been as you know, in the steamship business a long time. I have been in the railroad business a long time. I was opposed to this war at the beginning, but I am in favor of it now.

I have killed peasants, men and women, old and young... We killed 23,884 Turks without counting those whom we burned in homes or the Turks whose heads were cut by our soldiers.

I'm willing to sacrifice all of that because I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building.

I felt that if the general public, especially the American public, had access to the information, that it would spark a domestic debate on the role of the military and our foreign policy in general.

The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker. This honor now beckons America—the chance to help lead the world at last out of the valley of turmoil and onto that high ground where man can at last ensure that no people will have to…

Early in life I noted that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in the Spanish War I saw newspaper reports which did not bear the remotest relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie.

Nature would like to distinguish between the bodies of freemen and slaves, making the one strong for servile labor, the other upright, and although useless for such services, useful for political life in the arts both of war and peace.

War, as I remarked a moment ago, has hitherto been disappointing in this respect, but perhaps bacteriological war may prove more effective. If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freel…

I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running in the streets. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen children starving. I have seen the ago…

That is the question which I address to these representatives of the world. I am not asking for the lives of my soldiers, but for the lives of my people.

In reading history you will find that the laws of nature, in the early periods of society, were constantly violated; that the strongest had no right against the weakest, and that the laws of war were often arbitrary.

I have had this inscription of Dharma engraved in order that my sons and great-grandsons may not consider making new conquests, or that if military conquests are made, that they be done with forbearance and light punishment, or better still, that the…

Every form of political power, whether parliamentary, multi-party, one-party, or an open military dictatorship, reflects the interest of a certain class or classes in society. In a socialist state, the government represents the workers and peasants. …

His Majesty was confident, an unstoppable fighting force. Everything near him was ablaze with fire – all the foreign lands were blasted by his scorching breath. He slaughtered all the troops of the doomed Hittite, his nobleman and his brothers, along…

The narrative designed for internal consumption was fiction moulded around a kernel of fact: the pharaoh was indeed cut off from his army, he did face a chariot onslaught while outnumbered, and he did inflict casualties. He lost, but so what? As poli…

War is madness.

An efficient totalitarian dictatorship, in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude, is still a long way off. But i…

I have been in sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peak of happiness and seen the world. I have been loved and hated, and I have done some of both. I have been a friend and an enemy. I have been a teacher and a stud…

I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers, but I love Counsellor Such-a-one, and Judge Such-a-one: so with physicians—I will not speak of my own trade…

We went to Africa and we stopped the war in Africa because the people went to see Pelé play. They stopped the war. Just God can't explain that. I don't know why – it is impossible to know why – but they stopped the war. When we finished the game and …