An Affair to Remember War is the Health of the State

An Affair to Remember

War is the Health of the State. One keeps healthy in a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part. Either war is obsolete, or men are. War is the ultimate tool of politics. I hate it when they say, He gave his life for his country. They dont die for the honor and glory of their country. We kill them. Rear Admiral Gene R. LaRocque War has become a spectator sport for Americans. Rear Admiral Gene R. LaRocque They talk about conscription as a democratic institution. Yes; so is a cemetery. Why should you ask An Affair to Remember be spilled for a cause that is not in the interest of the American people? We may extend our dominion over the whole be assured it will be at the price of our free institutions. William Waters Boyce Patriotism at the expense of another nation is as wicked as racism at the expense of another us resolve to be patriots always, nationalists never. William Sloane Coffin Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce. become an alien city-state that An Affair to Remember America, and much of the rest of the world, in the way that Rome ruled the Roman Empire. When we fill our souls up with creativity, artistry and have a better chance at avoiding the behavior that leads to destruction. About the quote : Rick DellaRatta is founder of the group Jazz for Peace. It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do I do not believe any policy which has behind it the threat of military force is justified as part of the basic foreign policy of the United States except to defend the liberty of our own people. What a An Affair to Remember thing is fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world. The an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides. What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness god has given us in this This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul. Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war. When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie. shows people can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery. About the quote : Robert Higgs is a Senior Fellow in Political Economy for The Independent Institute. It is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error. The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions. Never is the power of the state greater, and never are the forces of political parties of opposition less effective, than at the outbreak of war. About the quote : From Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy, Collier Books, 1962, p. Michels wrote this for the 1915 edition after the outbreak of WW I.