916 quotes found
“Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
“Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.”
“Immer wieder behauptete Unwahrheiten werden nicht zu Wahrheiten, sondern, was schlimmer ist, zu Gewohnheiten.”
“Politics is war without blood, while war is politics with blood.”
“Presidents have absolutely gone against the will of Congress. Congress hasn't declared a war since December 7, 1941, and yet we've been at war ever since with somebody or other in order to justify ...”
“Why 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 th...”
“War is young men dying and old men talking”
“It is complete nihilism to propose laying down arms in a world where atom bombs are around. It is very simple: there is no way of achieving peace other than with weapons.”
“...this protracted war will pass through three stages. The first stage covers the period of the enemy's strategic offensive and our strategic defensive. The second stage will be the period of the e...”
“Warfare is now an interlocking system of actionspolitical, economic,psychological, militarythat aims at the overthrow of the establishedauthority in a country and its replacement by another regime.”
“Lending war equipment is a good deal like lending chewing gum. You don't want it back.”
“Boys fight the wars. Wed have the brotherhood of man tomorrow if the politicians had to get out and fight.”
“-I remember my father telling me about Englands redrawing of Indias boundaries when it became independent. They wanted to separate the Hindu from the Muslim, but they used outdated maps. Twelve mil...”
“I remember my father telling me about Englands redrawing of Indias boundaries when it became independent. They wanted to separate the Hindu from the Muslim, but they used outdated maps. Twelve mill...”
“The key to staying unintimidated is to convince yourself that the person you're facing is a mere mortal, no different from you-- which is in fact the truth. See the person, not the myth. Imagine hi...”
“What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.”
“A people religiously right, will not long remain politically wrong.”
“I consider myself a green party supporter...because green represents my favorite color other than clear. And I met a guy who was running for the green party this one time, and he seemed like he had...”
“At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the o...”
“Se ciascuno pensa solo a se stesso e non si fida che di se stesso, come volete che ci sia coraggio civile, dal momento che questa virt si basa sulla rinuncia a se stessi? Coraggio civile e coraggio...”
