September 15 March on Washington

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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy: that is the search for a superior moral justification for
selfishness.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venal love of fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and duty of peace.
- James Madison

The enemy aggressor is always pursuing a course of larceny, murder, rapine and barbarism. We are always moving forward with high mission, a destiny imposed by the Deity to regenerate our victims while incidentally capturing their markets, to civilise savage and senile and paranoid peoples while blundering accidentally into their oil wells.
- John Flynn, 1944

We’re not a democracy. It’s a terrible misunderstanding and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we’re a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy.
- Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General

Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of plutocracy.
- John Pierpont Morgan

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…the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.
- Benjamin Franklin, 1787

We must make clear to the Germans that the wrong for which their fallen leaders are on trial is not that they lost the war, but that they started.
- Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, U.S. representative to the International Conference on Military Trials, Aug. 12, 1945 -

Sooner or later, everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.
- Immanuel Kant

I BELIEVE that God wants me to be president.
~ George W. Bush

I would like to thank Providence and the Almighty for choosing me of all people to be allowed to wage this battle for Germany.
~ Hitler – Berlin March, 1936

God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments [as a nation] have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.
~George W. Bush

If we pursue this way, if we are decent, industrious, and honest, if we so loyally and truly fulfill our duty, then it is my conviction that in the future as in the past the Lord God will always help us.
~ Adolf Hitler, at the Harvest Thanksgiving Festival on the Buckeburg, on 3/10/ 1937

Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.
~George W. Bush

Never in these long years have we offered any other prayer but this: Lord, grant to our people peace at home, and grant and preserve to them peace from the foreign foe!
~Hitler – Nuremberg Sept. 13, 1936.

Justice is as strictly due between neighbor nations as between neighbor citizens. A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.
- Benjamin Franklin to Benjamin Vaughan, 14 March 1785

If… the machine of government… is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
- Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobediance, 1849We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was “legal” and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was “illegal.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, Why We Can’t Wait, 1963

Write on my gravestone: “Infidel, Traitor.” –infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.
- Wendell Phillips

Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience… therefore [individual citizens] have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring.
- Nuremberg War Crime Tribunal, 1950

Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they’re part of the crime.
- Olavo de Cavarlho

And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of peace they knew nothing, and had never engaged in any employment higher than war.
- Aristotle, Politics

It would be some time before I fully realized that the United States sees little need for diplomacy. Power is enough. Only the weak rely on diplomacy … The Roman Empire had no need for diplomacy. Nor does the United States.
- Boutros Boutros-Ghali