Random Quotes
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To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern. I do not suppose that Henry Ford would find much difficulty in running Andorra or Luxembourg on a socialistic basis. He has already more men on his pay-roll than their population. It is conceivable that a syndicate of Fords, if we could find them, would make Belgium Ltd. or Denmark Inc. pay their way. But while nationalization of certain industries is an obvious possibility in the largest of states, I find it no easier to picture a completely socialized British Empire or United States than an elephant turning somersaults or a hippopotamus jumping a hedge.J.B.S. Haldane, "On Being the Right Size" in the (1928) book "Possible Worlds"
We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists.George Bernard Shaw
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.Dwight David Eisenhower, 1953
A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbors.Dean Inge
No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country.General George Patton
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.Will Rogers
To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy.Ancient Chinese Warlord
Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about a protracted war because] from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time.Dan Quayle, 10/2/90 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
[The U.S. victory in Gulf war was] a stirring victory for the forces of aggression.Dan Quayle, 4/11/91 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.Eric Nicol