May 25 2007
Memorial Weekend Pt I
Some Quotes when thinking about the dead of war and U.S. policy.
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.
~John Quincy AdamsAlways 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 MacArthurThe most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
~Thomas JeffersonIt is our true policy to steer clear of entangling alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
~George WashingtonCommerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
~Thomas JeffersonThere never was a good war or a bad peace.
~Benjamin FranklinI believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
~H. L. MenckenGuard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
~George WashingtonIf Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
~James Madison
“Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute,” Robert Goodloe Harper
“Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, every where. Destroy this spirit, and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.” Abraham Lincoln, 1858, inscribed on a plaque at the entrance to the Statue of Liberty
“If, when the chips are down, the world’s most powerful nation, the United States of America, acts like a pitiful, helpless giant, the forces of totalitarianism and anarchy will threaten free nations and free institutions throughout the world.” Richard Nixon
“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse.” John Stuart Mill