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" Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women. "

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" Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented. "

" I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" It's one thing to recognize that the gap between the rich and everybody else is growing like a cancer; it's another thing to come up with useful solutions. "

" Katherine Johnson actually integrated the public university in West Virginia. And Mary Jackson had to petition state courts to be allowed to attend an all-white college to get the qualifications needed to become an engineer. At every turn, these women were involved in the Second World War, the Cold War, the civil rights movement. "

Margot Lee Shetterly

" War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. "

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

" The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. "

George S. Patton

" Racists seem obsessed by the idea that illegal workers - the hardest-working, poorest people in America - are somehow getting away with something, sneaking goodies that should be for Americans. You can always avoid this problem by having no social services. This is the refreshing Texas model, and it works a treat. "

" I only aim at the powerful. "

" When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not. "

" My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth. "

George Washington

" I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth. "

" Raise hell - big time. I want y'all to get out there and raise hell about damned near everything. My word, there's a world out there that needs fixing. Get out there and get after it. "

" The extent to which not just state legislatures but the Congress of the United States are now run by large corporate special interests is beyond mere recognition as fact. The takeover is complete. "

" I've said it before: War brings out the patriotic bullies. In World War I, they went around kicking dachshunds on the grounds that dachshunds were 'German dogs.' They did not, however, go around kicking German shepherds. "

" If we don't end war, war will end us. "

" A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. "

Winston Churchill

" Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear. "

" In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash. "

Douglas MacArthur

" What I've been telling people is that the doctors are gaining on cancer very rapidly. It's almost become a chronic disease, like diabetes - something you can treat. It doesn't go away, and you're not well in the sense of being over it, but you go on and live your life. "

" I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. "

Albert Einstein

" War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known. "

" The U.S. never lost a battle against North Vietnam, but it lost the war. "

" In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda. "

Charles Lindbergh

" Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life. "

" War is a defeat for humanity. "

Pope John Paul II

" As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived. "

" The reason there is no noblesse oblige about Dubya is because he doesn't admit to himself or anyone else that he owes his entire life to being named George W. Bush. He didn't just get a head start by being his father's son - it remained the single most salient fact about him for most of his life. "

" There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare. "

" Laura Bush, it seems, is used to cast a softer light on her husband, who then proceeds to reverse whatever she's just promised. "

" If you grew up white before the civil rights movement anywhere in the South, all grown-ups lied. They'd tell you stuff like, 'Don't drink out of the colored fountain, dear, it's dirty.' In the white part of town, the white fountain was always covered with chewing gum and the marks of grubby kids' paws, and the colored fountain was always clean. "