Declaring War Quotes

• El ejecutivo no tiene derecho, en ningún caso, a decidir la cuestión de si existe o no causa para declarar la guerra.

  James Madison

  War, Liberty, Tyranny Founding Fathers

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist, on the new constitution, written in 1788, with an appendix, containing the letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the proclamation of neutrality of 1793, also the original articles of confederation and the constitution of the United States”, p.451

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• No sé con qué armas se librará la Tercera Guerra Mundial, pero la Cuarta Guerra Mundial se librará con palos y piedras.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirador, Divertido, Sabiduría

  Albert Einstein (2003). "El manuscrito de Einstein de 1912 sobre la teoría especial de la relatividad", George Braziller

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• No war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Paz, Guerra, Personas

  Discurso antibélico de Eugene V. Debs en Canton, Ohio (16 de junio de 1918), citado en The Call Magazine, www.marxists.org. 1918.

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• How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.

  Tomás de Aquino

  Estrellas, Poderoso, Guerra

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• To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.

  Woodrow Wilson

  War, Fighting, Brutality

  Woodrow Wilson (2015). “Wilson, Volume V: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace, 1916-1917”, p.399, Princeton University Press

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• Nunca hubo una guerra buena ni una revolución mala.

  Edward Abbey

  Día de los Veteranos, Paz, Guerra

  Edward Abbey (1998). "The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel", p.140, Macmillan

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• Los mayores declaran la guerra. Pero son los jóvenes los que deben luchar y morir.

  Herbert Hoover

  Muerte, Paz, Guerra

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• When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look around and say, who recently has been declaring war on the United States? Of course, the compass points straight to bin Laden.

  Robert Fisk

  War, Humanity, United States

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. December 1, 2001.

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• They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command. But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Paz, Militar, Guerra

  Discurso antibélico de Eugene V. Debs en Canton, Ohio (16 de junio de 1918), citado en The Call Magazine, www.marxists.org. 1918.

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• On the Vietnam War: I've lived under situations where every decent man declared war first and I've lived under situations where you don't declare war. We've been flexible enough to kill people without declaring war.

  Lewis Blaine Hershey

  Guerra, Hombres, Gente

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• The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

  George Washington

  Travel, War, 4th Of July

  George Washington (1836). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts; with a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.367

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• Ayer, 7 de diciembre de 1941, una fecha que vivirá en la infamia, los Estados Unidos de América fueron repentina y deliberadamente atacados por las fuerzas navales y aéreas del Imperio del Japón... Obtendremos el inevitable triunfo con la ayuda de Dios.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Guerra, Ayer, América

  Franklin D. RooseveltDiscurso del Presidente al Congreso pidiendo que se declare el estado de guerra entre Estados Unidos y Japón, www.loc.gov. 8 de diciembre de 1941.

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• Esta administración declara aquí y ahora la guerra incondicional a la pobreza.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  War, Unconditional Love, Poverty

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• 7 de diciembre de 1941. Una fecha que vivirá en la infamia.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Guerra, Ejército del Aire, diciembre

  Discurso ante la sesión conjunta del Congreso pidiendo la declaración de guerra a Japón, 8 dic. 1941

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• El hombre de mentalidad popular, en particular, tiene el deber sagrado, cada uno en su propia denominación, de hacer que la gente deje de hablar sólo superficialmente de la voluntad de Dios, y cumpla realmente la voluntad de Dios, y no permita que la palabra de Dios sea profanada. Porque la voluntad de Dios dio a los hombres su forma, su esencia y sus capacidades. Quien destruye su obra está declarando la guerra a la creación del Señor, a la voluntad divina.

  Adolf Hitler

  Letting Go, Religious, War

  Adolf Hitler (1971). "Mein Kampf", Mariner Books

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• The power of declaring war being with the Legislature, the Executive should do nothing necessarily committing them to decide for war in preference of non-intercourse, which will be preferred by a great many.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Great Men, Preference

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.213, Algora Publishing

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• Pues la voluntad de Dios dio a los hombres su forma, su esencia y sus capacidades. Quien destruye Su obra está declarando la guerra a la creación del Señor, a la voluntad divina.

  Adolf Hitler

  Guerra, Hombres, Esencia

  Adolf Hitler (1998). "Mein Kampf", Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am not sure that I know enough about the pre-history of 9/11 to agree or disagree. But I did think at the time that the [George W.] Bush administration took a number of cues from the Israeli government, not only by drawing on and intensifying anti-Arab racism, but by insisting that the attack on US government and financial buildings was an attack on "democracy" and by invoking "security at all costs" to wage war without a clear focus (why the Taliban?), and by suspending both constitutional rights and the regular protocol for congressional approval for declaring war.

  Judith Butler

  War, Thinking, Rights

  Entrevista con Cihan Aksan y Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. 11 de octubre de 2013.

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• There can be no freedom for Africa without justice; and no justice without declaring war on Africa's poverty, disease and famine with as much vehemence as we remove the tyrant and the terrorist.

  Tony Blair

  War, Tyrants, Justice

  Address to Congress Accepting Congressional Gold Medal, pronunciado el 17 th Of July de 2003, Sesión Conjunta del Congreso, Washington, D.C.

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• La guerra era... la principal o quizá la única fuente de patriotismo, y muchos políticos, desde la prehistoria hasta esta mañana, unificaron a una ciudadanía descontenta señalando un peligro nacional y declarándole la guerra.

  Barbara Holland

  Morning, War, Politician

  Barbara Holland (1999). “Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories”, Harcourt

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• Nadie tomó la decisión de militarizar la policía en Estados Unidos. El cambio se ha producido lentamente, como resultado de una generación de políticos y funcionarios públicos que han avivado y explotado los temores de la población declarando la guerra a abstracciones como la delincuencia, el consumo de drogas y el terrorismo. Las políticas resultantes han hecho que esas metáforas bélicas sean cada vez más reales.

  Radley Balko

  Real, War, Drug Use

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• Guerrilla war is a test of wills. Obama's actual objectives - rollback in Iraq, containment in Syria - are not unreasonable. But they require commitment and determination. In other words, will. You can't just make one speech declaring war, then disappear and go fundraising.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Determination, War, Commitment

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• The Constitution expressly and exclusively vests in the Legislature the power of declaring a state of war [and] the power of raising armies.... A delegation of such powers [to the President] would have struck, not only at the fabric of our Constitution, but at the foundation of all well organized and well checked governments. The separation of the power of declaring war from that of conducting it, is wisely contrived to exclude the danger of its being declared for the sake of its being conducted.

  James Madison

  Guerra, Ejército, Gobierno

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