~Theodore Roosevelt
War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the
oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.
~General Smedley Butler
Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts
the right to seize the land or at least to control the government or resources
of another people.
~John T. Flynn
War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the
oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.
~General Smedley Butler
I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for
young men to die in.
~George McGovern
Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a
terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.
~A pirate, from St. Augustine's "City of God"
We are the ones responsible to determine whether the war
that our marines, soldiers and airmen are fighting in is worth the cause...
~Scott Ritter
I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those
who show an even greater readiness to submit.
~Thucydides
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is
honest, truthful, and virtuous.
~Frederick Douglass
The dangerous patriot...drifts into chauvinism and exhibits
blind enthusiasm for military actions.
~Colonel James A. Donovan, Marine Corps
I've been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and
my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great.
~Ernie Pyle
It is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the
president or anyone else.
~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
Military justice is to justice what military music is to
music.
~Groucho Marx
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
[The] constant
yelping about a free press means, with a few honourable exceptions, freedom to
peddle scandal, crime, sex, sensationalism, hate, innuendo and the political
and financial uses of propaganda. A newspaper is a business out to make money
through advertising revenue. That is predicted on its circulation and you know
what circulation depends on.
Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, 1953
The important thing about the so-called ‘communication
industry’ is that it is basically concerned with merchandising. News is a kind
of by-product and if you want sell things, you don’t want to offend anybody.
I.F.Stone, The Listner magazine, 1963
News is something someone, somewhere doesn’t want you to
print – the rest is advertising.
Anonymous
All newspaper editorial writers ever do is come down from
the hills after the battle is over and bayonet the wounded.
Anonymous
Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.
~Hugo Black, Supreme Court Justice
Football is a game designed to keep coal miners of the
streets.
Jimmy Breslin, American Writer,1973.
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