Re:Current World Problems

Well said....

"All ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy." --Alfred Emanuel Smith (1873 - 1944)

"The world is my country, all mankind are my brethern, and to do good is my religion." --Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)

"After all there is but one race--humanity." --George Moore [1853-1933], The Bending of the Bough

"War is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer." --Thomas Jefferson [1743-1826], Letter, 1794

"There is no cheap way to fight a war, once committed." --Vice-Admiral A. C. Davis

"As military professionals we must speak out, we must counsel our political leaders and alert the American public that there is no such thing as a 'splendid little war.' There is no such thing as a war fought on the cheap. War is death and destruction." --General Fred C. Weyand

"A wise minister would rather preserve peace, than gain a victory; because he knows that, even the most successful war leaves nations generally more poor, always more profligate than it found them." --Reverand C. C. Colton [1780?-1832], Lacon

"[A republican (i.e., representative, constitutional) government is the one most likely to secure an end to war.] The reason is this: if the consent of the citizens is required in order to decide that war should be declared . . . nothing is more natural than that they would be very cautious in commencing such a poor game, decreeing for themselves all the calamities of war. Among the latter would be: having to fight, having to pay the cost of the war from their own resources, having painfully to repair the devastation war leaves behind, and to fill up the measures of evils, load themselves with a heavy national debt that would embitter peace itself. . . ." --Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), Perpetual Peace, 1795

"They made a wasteland and call it peace." --Tacitus [55?-117 A.D.]

"The causes of war lie deeper than the weapons with which it is fought." --Ralph K. White

"Everything has changed but our way of thinking." --Albert Einstein, 1945

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