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Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won.
Douglas MacArthur1880–1964Victory broadcast (1945)
We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war.
Douglas MacArthur1880–1964Victory broadcast (1945)
If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.
Douglas MacArthur1880–1964Victory broadcast (1945)
War’s very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.
Douglas MacArthur1880–1964Farewell address to Congress (1951)
I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular barrack ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that “old soldiers never die; they just fade away.” And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty.
Douglas MacArthur1880–1964Farewell address to Congress (19 April 1951)
- Age
Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.
Niccolò Machiavelli1469–1527
- Freedom
- Guns
War should be the only study of a prince.
Niccolò Machiavelli1469–1527
Men rise from one ambition to another. First they seek to secure themselves from attack, and then they attack others.
Niccolò Machiavelli1469–1527
A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules and discipline; for this is the sole art that belongs to him who rules
Niccolò Machiavelli1469–1527The Prince (1532), Chapter XIVIn context
- Leadership
If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
James Madison1751–1836
- America
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
James Madison1751–1836“Political Observations” (1795-04-20)
- Freedom
Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
James Madison1751–1836“Political Observations” (1795-04-20)
- Liberty
The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, & most prone to it.
James Madison1751–1836Letter to Thomas Jefferson (2 April 1798); published in The Writings of James Madison (1906) edited by Gaillard Hunt, Vol. 6, pp. 312-14
- Government
- Presidency
You can’t separate peace from freedom, because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Malcolm X1925–1965Speech in New York City (7 January 1965)
- Freedom
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Nelson Mandela1918–2013Long Walk to Freedom (1995)
- Enemies