Rock 'n' roll was two pegs below being a prisoner of war back then.
In the Second World War, they're talking about the Japanese traitors and putting them into concentration camps. But companies like DuPont had factories in Germany turning out stuff for the German Army.
But critics of the war have no reason to regret their views.
What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.
A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.
War is about dead people.
In the 1980s America reacted to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. We supported a war that left a nation torn to pieces. And as the last Soviet tank left the country, so did we.
The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.
Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes.
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
The United States never lost a war or won a conference.
After every war someone has to tidy up.
We cannot undo the past in this misguided war in Iraq.
La loi n'a jamais rendu les hommes plus justes d'un iota ; et, à cause du respect qu'ils lui marquent, les êtres bien disposés eux-même deviennent les agents de l'injustice.
The real question is: How sturdy and solid is the floor our civilization stands on? How many lives with no prospects, shattered and senseless, can it bear the weight of before it cracks somewhere or other, splits at the joints?
Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
There are indeed moral universals — the Hebrew Bible calls them ‘the covenant with Noah’ and they form the basis of modern codes of human rights. But they exist to create space for cultural and religious difference…
Let me tell you a secret, Caitlin. We’re still in the cave. It’s just bigger, and we wear nicer clothes. We make alliances and try to be civil, we save the weak instead of leaving them out in the cold to die. . .
