Quotes from the Past

Garrett got me started on this, researching historical wartime presidential quotes because some Kos dipshit wanted to compare Bush's speeches with wartime casualties.

What Garrett fails to realize or wishes to overlook is that war is a traumatic event that requires strength and resolve to be radiated from the CinC and that need is irrespective of whether or not one believes or supports the war itself.

If we lived in the same town I dunno whether I'd frog march you into a civics class or beat you over the head with a tome from American Heritage. Because, obviously, you and a number of the Kos overgrown children have a lot to remember in both areas.

So here we go:

Woodrow Wilson, US entry into WWI:

"It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts -- for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free. To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything that we are and everything that we have, with the pride of those who know that the day has come when America is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace which she has treasured. God helping her, she can do no other. "

Woodrow Wilson, 1918, "Peace Without Victory"

"The present war must first be ended; but we owe it to candor and to a just regard for the opinion of mankind to say that, so far as our participation in guarantees of future peace is concerned, it makes a great deal of difference in what way and upon what terms it is ended. The treaties and agreements which bring it to an end must embody terms which will create a peace that is worth guaranteeing and preserving, a peace that will win the approval of mankind, not merely a peace that will serve the several interests and immediate aims of the nations engaged."

Abe Lincoln, 2nd Inaugural Address

"Fondly do we hope--fervently do we pray--that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said 'the judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether'"