ABC Reports Ron Paul First Place in Military Donations

The supreme excellence is to subde the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them.

~Sun Tzu

There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare.

~Sun Tzu

War is the business of barbarians.

~Napoleon Bonaparte

In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments.

~Napoleon Bonaparte

Military glory--that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood--that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy...

~Abraham Lincoln

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose—and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

~Abraham Lincoln

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.

~Abraham Lincoln

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

~Abraham Lincoln

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

~Abraham Lincoln

We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era--a permanent state of what I call violent peace.

~Admiral James D. Watkins

All nations want peace, but they want a peace that suits them.

~Admiral Sir John Fisher

In war, truth is the first casualty.

~Aeschylus

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

~Aesop

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

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

~Albert Einstein

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

~Albert Einstein

Force always attracts men of low morality.

~Albert Einstein

How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.

~Albert Einstein

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

~Albert Einstein

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

~Albert Einstein

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

~Albert Einstein

Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

~Albert Einstein

O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.

~Alexander Pope

I hope....that mankind will at length, as they call themselves responsible creatures, have the reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats...

~Benjamin Franklin

Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

~Benjamin Franklin

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

~Benjamin Franklin

There never was a good war or a bad peace.

~Benjamin Franklin

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

~Benjamin Franklin

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

~Benjamin Franklin

A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.

~Benjamin Franklin

About the quote: Speaking to Benjamin Vaughan, 14 March 1785.

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

~Benjamin Harrison

Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.

~Bertrand Russell

War does not determine who is right, only who is left.

~Bertrand Russell

No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.

~Calvin Coolidge

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

~Colin Powell

The dangerous patriot...drifts into chauvinism and exhibits blind enthusiasm for military actions.

~Colonel James A. Donovan, Marine Corps

The dangerous patriot...is a defender of militarism and its ideals of war and glory.

~Colonel James A. Donovan, Marine Corps

Chauvinism is a proud and bellicose form of patriotism...which equates the national honor with military victory.

~Colonel James A. Donovan, Marine Corps

Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.

~Davy Crockett

The question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many.

~Dick Cheney

Nothing except a battle lost can be half as melancholy as a battle won.

~Duke of Wellington

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

This world of ours...must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

Together we must learn how to compose difference, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

War settles nothing.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

How far can you go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

We may never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly, I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dulce bellum inexpertis (War is delightful to the inexperienced).

~Erasmus

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificually induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

~General Douglas MacArthur

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

~General Douglas MacArthur

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.

~General Douglas MacArthur

Always 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 MacArthur

Our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in...war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

~General Douglas MacArthur

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

~General Omar N. Bradley

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

~General Omar N. Bradley

War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.

~General Omar N. Bradley

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.

~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

There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.

~General Smedley Butler

War is just a racket...I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.

~General Smedley Butler

There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.

~General Smedley Butler

My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military.

~General Smedley Butler (USMC, Ret.)

Putting aside all the fancy words and academic doubletalk, the basic reason for having a military is to do two jobs --to kill people and to destroy.

~General Thomas S. Power

Any forces that would impose their will on other nations will certainly face defeat.

~General Vo Nguyen Giap (Vietnam)

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

War is at best barbarism. Its glory is all moonshine...War is hell.

~General William Tecumseh Sherman

It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.

~General William Tecumseh Sherman

War is fear cloaked in courage.

~General William Westmoreland

Vietnam was the first war ever fought without censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

~General William Westmoreland

The military doesn't start wars. The politicians start wars.

~General William Westmoreland

Many more at http://www.antiwar.com/quotes.php

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..and laugh at my comment.

Charles Gibson was going on and on about Romney & McCain then turns to Stephanopoulos and says something like "Well that covers two of the republican candidates..." and starts talking about Huck with NO mention of Ron Paul that I heard.

THEN the coverage goes to SPOUSES!! Michelle Obama this, Bill Clinton that... blah, blah, blah (Don't remember hearing Carol Paul mentioned, either)

Maybe Wolf should have a talk with Gibson & Stephanopoulos.(regarding the thread where he says to not forget Ron Paul)

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