Michael Jackson on war and peace

I’m totally at home on the stage. That’s where I live. That’s where I was born. That’s where I’m safe.

I’m just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily.

I have been the artist with the longest career, and I am so proud and honoured to be chosen from heaven to be invincible.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Letter to William Stephens Smith (13 November 1787). Manuscript at the Library of Congress.

• Liberty

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969The Chance for Peace (1953)

• Guns

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

George S. Patton1885–1945