Notable Quotes from Recent History
April 17th, 2006
To reconvey the point that intelligent, thoughtful folk from decades back have always had common sense of matters, I present some quotations from historically significant individuals.
Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. — Benjamin Franklin
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels – men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly. — Senator Robert M. La Follette
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official… — Theodore Roosevelt
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
In most communities it is illegal to cry “fire” in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims? — Dwight D. Eisenhower
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