Quotes Of The Past Reflect The Reality of Today

Many great scholars and politicians from decades to centuries ago had similar reflections on war and its realities on society. These quotes are from both Democrats and Republicans, Scholars and Philosophers.


Issac Asimov: Violence is the first refuge of the incompetent.

Herbert Hoover: Older men declare war. But its the youth who must fight and die.

Benjamin Franklin: Never has there been a good war or a bad peace.

Dwight D Eisenhower: 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 not clothed.

Gandhi: What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy.

George McGovern: I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

Plato: Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Ronald Reagan: History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Gandi: As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. Man, for instance, cannot be untruthful, cruel or incontinent and claim to have God on his side.


If only the Bush administration had looked into the past to see what the realities would be today, maybe they wouldn't have started such a senseless, baseless war that would destroy the lives of thousands.

In reflection, maybe they did look back and maybe Bush just doesn't care!