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Wars of aggression are the most barbarous of all human endeavors and are, more often than not, the instruments of insane tyrants who hear voices. About the quote : Tremblay is a Canadian-born economist. I learned nothing from war. War is not an activity for human beings; war is for criminalsrape, robbery and murder. Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing. People do not make wars; governments do. mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology. The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor. About the quote : From a speech on nuclear weapons, March 23, 1 History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. We must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the tuck everlasting to handle conflict by peaceful means. Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. Governments first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives. A people free to choose will always choose peace. The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people. If you sacrifice liberty for security, you will lose both. Do they think if we destroy our freedoms for the terrorists they will no longer have a reason to attack us? Terror is a tactic. We can not wage war against a tactic. Those who do not move, do not notice tuck everlasting chains. Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. The fact that certain planets are uninhabited may very well derive from the fact that their nuclear scientist are more advanced than ours. Salon Gahlin, Swedish author No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies. How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! War-after all, what is it that the people get? Why-widows, taxes, wooden legs and debt. If you support any offensive war, consider yourself just as culpable of murder as the most insane serial killer. Not only is war a form of legalized murder, but it is mass serial killing. Id like to think the best bunker buster is a diplomat. We are the ones responsible to determine whether the war that our marines, soldiers and airmen are fighting in is worth the We say that we care about the war, but we dont even really know what were fighting for. Iraq was a war of choice, not necessity. About the quote : From a speech delivered Wed. July 6, 200 Tis not, my country right or wrong; tis, my country, that which is right to be kept right, that which is wrong to be set right About the quote : from his senate remarks 2/29/ published in The Policy of Imperialism, Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz, vol. 6, pp. 11920 1 The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. Senator James W.