"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." - General Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Mar 9th, 2005
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Posts: 1149 From: Los Angeles, Ca. USA Registered: Jun 2000
Shoutings From The Grave... Embedded Americans Speak Out Compiled by Douglas Herman 3-9-5
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. Our defense is in the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors. When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon. To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever.
If an American is concerned only about his nation, he will not be concerned about the peoples of Asia, Africa or South America. Is this not why nations engage in the madness of war without the slightest sense of penitence? Is this not why the murder of citizens of another nation in war is an act of heroic virtue? Youíre not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you canít face reality. Wrong is wrong no matter who does it or who says it. I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war. War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrongs and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses. What is human warfare but just this: an effort to make the laws of God and Nature take sides with one party. There never was a good war or a bad peace. It is soldiers who pay most of the human cost.
Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliance with any portion of the foreign world. In the councils of government we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. Overgrown military establishments are, under any form of government, inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. While we are guarding the country, we must accept being the guardian of the finest ethics. The country needs it and we must do it. Statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is attacked. But wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society. To be a patriot, one had to keep on saying ìour country, right or wrongî, and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?
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. I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. The people of the world want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it to them.
The above quotations were provided by the following embedded Americans: Tom Paine, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mark Twain, Henry David Thoreau, Ben Franklin, Generals Creighton Abrams, George Washington, and Dwight D. Eisenhower
Douglas Herman is an amateur historian and USAF veteran. You may reach him at douglasherman7@yahoo.com for questions about any quote.
------------------ 88 4cyl auto Fiero, AC, sunroof, tilt steering, rear swaybar "And isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!" - The Tick
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Posts: 4828 From: Valley of the Sun Registered: Jul 2001
"Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping away beneath you, you suddenly know everything there is to be known." - Winnie the Pooh
"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him, the spinal cord would fully suffice." - Albert Einstein
"it would be easier to pay off our national debt overnight than to neutralize the long-range effects of our national stupidity." - Frank Zappa
"We are not going to be able to operate our spaceship Earth much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody." - R. Buckminster Fuller
"Never try to impress a woman because if you do, you'll have to keep up that standard the rest of your life."
"I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally."
"Start the day off with a smile, and get it over with."
"I always keep a supply of liquor handy in case I see a snake - which I also keep handy."
"If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then quit. No sense being a damn fool about it."
- All from W. C. Fields
"About as reliable as a group of clowns crowded into a single toilet stall." - A poster on another forum
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Posts: 1149 From: Los Angeles, Ca. USA Registered: Jun 2000
"From now this moment on, let those who feel that Americans can be as easily led to beauty as to ugliness, to truth as to public relations [spin], to joy as to bitterness, be said to be suffering from Hunter Thompson's disease."
"We are not going to be able to operate our spaceship Earth much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody." - R. Buckminster Fuller
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Ahhh, Bucky... Still ahead of his (our) time....
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"The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten, that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods." -- H. L. Mencken
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Posts: 1149 From: Los Angeles, Ca. USA Registered: Jun 2000
There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it." - - Napoleon Hill
"Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternative." Barry Goldwater Conservative Politician, Former Arizona Senator and Governor Speech, 1981
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Posts: 1523 From: Humboldt, Tenn Registered: Nov 2002
"Don't hold a cat and use a Dust Buster at the same time" From "All I needed to know, I learned in Kindergarden", and recently re-enacted by my wife and me.
A little levity.
"Interesting - I use a Mac to help me design the next Cray." - Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when he was told that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design the next Mac.
For the DP/IT/Comp Sci. folks
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"The Bush administration should set up an independent commission to investigate American detainee policy across the board. The president must take the offensive on this, or else the country's image will continue to suffer."
Bill O'Reilly (really!), June 7, 2005
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We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. Stephen Hawking
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