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We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.
When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with
it.
Edward R. Murrow
Every nation has its war party.It is not the party of democracy.
It is the party of autocracy.It seeks to dominate absolutely.
Sen. Robert M. LaFollette
The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak,
write and worship as they wish, not as the Government
commands.
Justice Hugo Black
Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge
among the people, who have... a right, an indisputable, unalienable,
indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean the characters
and conduct of their rulers.
John Adams
Freedom and the power to choose should not be the privilege of
wealth.
They are the birthright of every American.
George H. W. Bush
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom
of speech.
Cato
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied
sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Edmund Burke
Never give in. Never, never, never, never, in nothing great or
small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to
force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of
the enemy.
Winston Churchill
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the
other man's freedom.You can only be free if I am free.
Clarence Darrow
…whenever any Form of Government becomes
destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter
or to abolish it.
Declaration of Independence
…But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing
invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is
their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to
provide new guards for their future security.
Declaration of Independence
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most
dangerous of all subversions.It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat
us.
Justice William O. Douglas
Laws alone cannot secure freedom of expression; in order
that every man present his views without penalty there
must be a spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Albert Einstein
Patriotism means to stand by the country.
It does not mean to stand by the president or any other
public official.
Theodore Roosevelt
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest,
truthful, and virtuous.
Frederick Douglass
Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism.
Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.
Noam Chomsky
What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain
that you believe to be to your advantage.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor
safety.
Benjamin Franklin
Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most
to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the
germ of every other.
Benjamin Franklin
The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know
anything about the subject.
Marcus Aurelius
The dangerous patriot...drifts into chauvinism and exhibits blind enthusiasm for military
actions.
Colonel James A. Donovan
It is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the
president or anyone else.
Theodore Roosevelt
Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an
artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant
propaganda of fear.
General Douglas McArthur
Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will
have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.
Mahatma Gandhi
The statesman who yields to war fever...is no longer the
master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and
uncontrollable events.
Winston Churchill
Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition,
was the cause of all these evils.
Thucydides
We say that we care about the war, but we don’t even really know what we’re fighting for.
Scott Ritter
It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded
who cry aloud for blood...War is hell.
General William Tecumseh Sherman
The worst barbarity of war is that it forces men
collectively to commit acts against which
individually they would revolt with their whole
being.
Ellen Key
[War] might be avoidable were more emphasis
placed on the training to social interest, less on
the attainment of egotistical grandeur.
Lydia Sicher
Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on
the part of the instigator of the war.
Mark Twain
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and
exclusively vested in the legislature.
James Madison
War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime
perpetrated on the community of man.
Alfred Adler
As long as we can talk with people, as long as one can
keep the guns quiet, one has a chance.
Lydia Sicher
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in
moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,
that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
Thomas Jefferson
The dangerous patriot...is a defender of militarism and its
ideals of war and glory.
Colonel James A. Donovan
Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of
murder.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition
should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be
propagated.
William Ellery Channing
Where is the justice of political power if it...marches
upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging
the very hills?
Kahlil Gibran
We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted
influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-
industrial complex.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Let us become inspired by inherent beauty, and not
impassioned by manufactured hate.
Nima Shirali,Middle Eastern Reconciliation Forum
That we are to stand by the president, right or wrong is
not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally
treasonable to the American public.
Theodore Roosevelt
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish
it to be always kept alive.
Thomas Jefferson
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of
ignorance, and good intentions may do as much
harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
Albert Camus
Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.
Anne O'Hare McCormick
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is
as disastrous as to lose one.
Agatha Christie
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with
none.
Thomas Jefferson
War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the
profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
General Smedley Butler
War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the
profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
General Smedley Butler
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
Lyndon B. Johnson
History teaches that war begins when governments
believe the price of aggression is cheap.
Ronald Reagan
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and
wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
William Penn
Our enemies...never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our
people, and neither do we.
George W. Bush
There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation
of differences before resorting to combat.
Jimmy Carter
Chauvinism is a proud and bellicose form of
patriotism...which equates the national honor with military
victory.
Colonel James A. Donovan
Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance
of any kind of democratic government.
Sen. Robert Taft
Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless
you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree
with...
Gerard K. O’Neill
Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our
allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.
James Bryce
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will
never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
Dorothy Thompson
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy,
and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Thomas Jefferson
To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters
more how much pressure they're under from the public.
Noam Chomsky