Quotes

“When Kansas and Colorado have a quarrel over the water in the Arkansas River, they don’t call out the National Guard in each state and declare war over it. They bring a suit in the Supreme Court of the United States and abide by the decision. There isn’t a reason in the world why we can’t do that internationally.”

Harry Truman

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“I cannot help thinking that the constitution of the United States, notably the establishment of the Supreme Court and in the methods adopted for securing peace and good relations among and between the different states, offers certain valuable analogies to what should be striven for in order to secure, through the Hague courts and conferences, a species of world federation for international peace and justice”.                                           

Pres. Theodore Roosevelt

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“Naturally the common people don’t want war, neither in Russia, nor in England, not for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, weather it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship… All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country”. 

                                                                             Herman Goering:

The Editor: This quote is here to illustrate that monsters like him existed before, and more to the point, that they exist today, in government.

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The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.

                                                                    James Madison 1787

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