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Dwight David Eisenhower
May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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Aristotle, philosopher (384-322 BCE)
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion.
Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they
consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move
against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
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Dwight David Eisenhower
America's leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches and military strength, but on how we use our power in the interests of world peace and human betterment.
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Anna Quindlen, April, 2003
In a democratic society, the only treason is silence.
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Donald Rumsfeld, November 15, 2002
"The idea that it's going to be a long, long, long battle of some kind I think is belied by the fact of what happened in 1990. Five days or five weeks or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last any longer than that. It won't be a World War III."
Infinity Radio talk show.
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Thomas L. Friedman
What we have in the Bush team is a faith-based administration. It launched a faith-based war in Iraq, on the basis of faith-based intelligence, with a faith-based plan for Iraqi reconstruction, supported by faith-based tax cuts to generate faith-based revenues. NY Times, 2/1/04
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Jacob Hacker and Theodore Marmor in the Boston Globe
The conservative reform agenda ... is simultaneously driven by ideological principles that celebrate free competition and the interests of powerful industries that hope to avoid it at all costs.
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Grover Norquist, Americans for Tax Reform
My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.
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Jeanette Rankin 1880-1973
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
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Jeanette Rankin 1880-1973
There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense;
for war is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible. [1929]
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George H. W. Bush
I firmly believed we should not march into Baghdad ...To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us and make a broken tyrant, into a latter-day Arab hero ... assigning young soldiers to a fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning them to fight in what would be an unwinnable urban guerrilla war.
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Margaret Mead
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world: Indeed it's the only thing that ever has.
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Leo Tolstoy
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
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Ascribed to Edmund Burke.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Thomas Jefferson
The People are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
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Boswell quoting Johnson, 1791
"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." But let it be considered that he did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak of self-interest.
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General F. S. Maude, commander of British forces in Iraq, 1917
Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators. Your wealth has been stripped of you by unjust men ... The people of Baghdad shall flourish under institutions which are in consonance with their sacred laws.
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Theodore Roosevelt
To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or 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.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1824
When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart.
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Margaret Chase Smith
Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.
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Henry Steele Commager
Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.
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H. L. Mencken
The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.
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Edward R. Murrow
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
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Thomas Paine
We have it in our power to make the world over again.
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Senator Robert Byrd
I do not begrudge his salute to America’s warriors aboard the carrier Lincoln. But I do question the motives of a deskbound president who assumes the garb of a warrior for the purposes of a speech.
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Jay Garner, the retired general, first in charge of the American occupation of Iraq
We ought to be beating our chests every day. We ought to look in a mirror and be proud, and stick out our chests and suck in our bellies, and say, "Damn, we're Americans!"
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George W. Bush, October 12, 2000
If we're an arrogant nation, they'll resent us; if we're a humble nation, but strong, they'll welcome us. And our nation stands alone right now in the world in terms of power, and that's why we've got to be humble, and yet project strength in a way that promotes freedom.
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Thomas Jefferson
The People are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
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George W. Bush to Bob Woodward
I'm the commander. I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation.
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Dwight David Eisenhower, April 16, 1953
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
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Arthur C. Clarke
This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
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