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"You have heard that it has been said, 'Thou shalt love thy neighbor and hate thine enemy.' But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you," Jesus (Matthew 5: 43-44).

"Don't be taken in when they [the rich] paternally pat you on the shoulder and say that there's no inequality worth speaking of and no more reason to fight [them], because if you believe them they will be completely in charge in their marble homes and granite banks from which they rob the people of the world under the pretence of bringing them culture. Watch out, for as soon as it pleases them they'll send you out to protect their gold in wars whose weapons, rapidly developed by servile scientists, will become more and more deadly until they can with a flick of the finger tear a million of you to pieces," Jean-Paul Marat (May 24, 1743 – July 13, 1793) was a Swiss-born scientist and physician.

"War ... should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits," President James Madison.

"You have heard that it has been said, 'An eye for and eye, and a tooth for a tooth': But I say unto you…whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also," Jesus (Matt 5:38). 

"Is uniformity attainable? Millions of innocent men, women and children since the introduction of Christianity have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity," Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Va., 1782.

“And the question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many. So I think we got it right, both when we decided to expel him from Kuwait, but also when the president made the decision that we'd achieved our objectives and we were not going to go get bogged down in the problems of trying to take over and govern Iraq. Once we had rounded him (Saddam) up and gotten rid of his government, then the question is what do you put in its place? You know, you then have accepted the responsibility for governing Iraq. Now what kind of government are you going to establish? Is it going to be a Kurdish government, or a Shi'ia government, or a Sunni government, or maybe a government based on the old Baathist Party, or some mixture thereof? You will have, I think by that time, lost the support of the Arab coalition that was so crucial to our operations over there.”  The end result…[he] said would be a messy, dangerous situation requiring a long-term presence by U.S. forces. “I would guess if we had gone in there, we would still have forces in Baghdad today, we'd be running the country. We would not have been able to get everybody out and bring everybody home.” This quote is from Richard Cheney eighteen months after the first Gulf War ended.  If we had listened to this man a lot more American troops and Iraqi civilians would be alive today. Source: Connelly, Joel. In the Northwest: Bush – Cheney Flip-Flops Cost America in Blood. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. 29 Sept. 2004 <http://seattlepi.nwsource.com /connelly/192828_joel29.html>.

"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our government in a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country," Thomas Jefferson

"The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent," Gore Vidal.

"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable an ignorable war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder," Albert Einstein.

“God has chosen the Republicans, why haven’t you?” Garrison Keillor.

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