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Post by Administrator on Mar 28, 2003 11:30:13 GMT -5
"Anyone who clings to the historically untrue--and thoroughly immoral--doctrine that 'violence never solves anything' I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The Ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more disputes in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms."
- Robert Heinlein
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Post by Administrator on Mar 28, 2003 11:32:33 GMT -5
"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. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares about more than his personal safety; is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. "
- John Stuart Mill
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Post by Administrator on Mar 28, 2003 11:33:27 GMT -5
"If you're going through hell, keep going."
- Winston Churchill
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Post by Administrator on Mar 28, 2003 11:34:53 GMT -5
"All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing."
- Edmund Burke
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Post by Administrator on Mar 28, 2003 11:39:35 GMT -5
Marriage is the only war where you sleep with the enemy. --Gary Busey
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Post by Administrator on Mar 28, 2003 11:40:47 GMT -5
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
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Post by Administrator on Mar 28, 2003 11:41:26 GMT -5
So long as there are men there will be wars
--Albert Einstein
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Post by Administrator on Mar 28, 2003 11:42:23 GMT -5
The purpose of all war is ultimately peace.
--Saint Augustine
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Post by Administrator on Mar 28, 2003 11:51:01 GMT -5
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
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Post by Administrator on Mar 28, 2003 11:52:36 GMT -5
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
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Post by Administrator on Mar 28, 2003 11:54:41 GMT -5
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
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Post by Administrator on Mar 28, 2003 11:55:53 GMT -5
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.
--Sir Winston Churchill
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Post by Administrator on Mar 28, 2003 11:57:03 GMT -5
Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. Action, self-reliance, the vision of self and the future have been the only means by which the oppressed have seen and realized the light of their own freedom.
--Marcus Garvey
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Post by Administrator on Mar 28, 2003 12:03:57 GMT -5
Let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania! Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado! Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California! But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia! Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee! Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
--Martin Luther King
Just replace the American cities with those in Iraq and change the author to an Iraqi civilian whose only dream is to live free.
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Post by ChrisR155 on Mar 28, 2003 12:23:13 GMT -5
"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it." - Abraham Lincoln - April 6, 1859 Amen to that SpamHate
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