I just visited the website of an advertiser of Thom Hartmann's show. Wow!

[Bozita]

The quotes are all on the homepage of this company specializing in high-end coffees.

http://superbeans.com/

They said it better than I could Dept.

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. ~ General Smedley Butler

We may extend our dominion over the whole continent...but be assured it will be at the price of our free institutions. ~ Rep. William Waters Boyce

I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses... ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick

Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly. ~ Senator Robert M. La Follette

After every ''victory'' you have more enemies. ~ Jeanette Winterson

Our children are not born to hate, they are raised to hate. ~ Thomas della Peruta

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism. ~ George Washington

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official... ~ Theodore Roosevelt

Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. ~ Hugo Black, Supreme Court Justice

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous. ~ Frederick Douglass

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it. ~ Noam Chomsky

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions. ~ Robert Lynd

Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~ Benjamin Franklin

War doesn't make boys men, it makes men dead. ~ Ken Gillespie

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it. ~ Edward R. Murrow

It is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people... ~ Hugo Black, Supreme Court Justice

It is always more valuable to report the truth. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act. ~ George Orwell

In this war - as in others - I am less interested in honoring the dead than in preventing the dead. ~ Butler Shaffer

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. ~ Voltaire

Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war. ~ Mark Twain

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. ~ James Madison

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny. ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children. ~ Jimmy Carter

The dangerous patriot...is a defender of militarism and its ideals of war and glory. ~ Colonel James A. Donovan, Marine Corps

The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. ~ William Ellery Channing

...Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population... ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

War remains the decisive human failure. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith

That we are to stand by the president, right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. ~ Thomas Jefferson

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. ~ Albert Einstein

I hate war...for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it. ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick

War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. ~ General Smedley Butler

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. ~ Senator John McCain

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it. ~ William Penn

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Any forces that would impose their will on other nations will certainly face defeat. ~ General Vo Nguyen Giap

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac. ~ George Orwell

Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government. ~ Sen. Robert Taft, (R) Ohio

The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people. ~ Frank Kent

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest. ~ Thomas Jefferson

I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. ~ James Baldwin

There were no international terrorists in Iraq until we went in. It was we who gave the perfect conditions in which Al Qaeda could thrive. ~ Robin Cook

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. ~ Mark Twain

All men having power ought to be mistrusted. ~ James Madison

National defense is the usual pretext for the policy of fleecing the people. ~ Senator John Taylor

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures. ~ Congressman Ron Paul

The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. ~ Herman Goering

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world. ~ Benjamin Harrison

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust government statements. ~ Senator James W. Fulbright

I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security. ~ Jim Garrison

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. ~ Barbara Ehrenreich

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. ~ Jeanette Rankin

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it. ~ Alexis de Tocqueville

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. ~ General Douglas MacArthur

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. ~ Howard Zinn

All wars are fought for money. ~ Socrates

[islandmkl]

1. look who's about half-way down...

m.c.johnny himself...

[SCantiGOP]

2. great quote from Ike

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hard to believe this guy was a Republican.
I'd love to see someone throw this quote at McCain in a press conference and see how far he would go to criticize the crackpot pacifist who would say such a thing.

[Bozita]

3. I never hear a Republican recognize Ike in any way.

Not so strange when one considers Ike's comments on the military-industrial complex.