Vigilant Investor

More quotes to ponder for a weekend to remember those who’ve given their lives in war.

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
~Robert Lynd

Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter.
~Sir Winston Churchill

I’m fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
~George McGovern

The statesman who yields to war fever…is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
~Sir Winston Churchill

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
~H.L. Mencken

..Violence as a way of gaining power…is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security…
~Alfred Adler

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
~Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
~Albert Camus

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
~William Pitt

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised “for the good of its victims” may be the most oppressive.
~C. S. Lewis

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
~Voltaire

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
~Tacitus

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
~Voltaire

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
~H. L. Mencken

The obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.
~Ron Paul

“My country right or wrong” is like saying, “My mother drunk or sober.”
~G. K. Chesterton

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
~Plato

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.
~Murray Rothbard

After each war there is a little less democracy to save.
~Brooks Atkinson

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
~George Orwell

Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.
~A pirate, from St. Augustine’s “City of God”

War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.
~Ludwig von Mises

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.
~Frank Chodorov

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