"That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations, is as shocking as it is true; but when those who are concerned in the government of a country, make it their study to sow discord, and cultivate prejudices between Nations, it becomes the more unpardonable."
— Thomas Paine, preface to Rights of Man
Terrorism is terrorism is terrorism.
Got courage? She does.
"We have rendered the Muslim society a lot more miserable, more disorganized, more ignorant, and more barbarian than what it was before it knew us."
— Alexis de Tocqueville (1847) on French colonization of Algeria
"War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses."
— Thomas Jefferson (via hipsterlibertarian)
The unofficial motto of the CIA.
(Source: cowboy-robot, via whoisjohngalt-)
(Source: la-histora-es-nuestra, via self-ownership)
"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty."
— George Washington
