George Augustus Henry Sala Quotes

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.

There can be no peace with someone who wants to kill you.

We are a Nation of peace and compassion, yet these people have and will devote every fiber of their beings to the destruction of Americans and our Country.

Hate them and strike them.

I can hardly repress our press and our people too. They are thirsting for war against England.

Fascism means war.

As long as there are men who would hate and destroy, we must find the courage to resist

The English people would never consent to go to war for a cause in which England was not manifestly interested.

National sentiments can cause such sinful phenomena as aggressive nationalism, xenophobia, national exclusiveness and inter-ethnic enmity. At their extremes, these phenomena often lead to the restriction of the rights of individuals and nations, wars and other manifestations of violence

We are told that the American soldier does not know what he is fighting for. Now at least he will know what he is fighting against.

The altar of liberty totters when it is cemented only with blood

The English will never cut each other's throats to the extent that we desire.

Special interests and the demented philosophy of conquest have driven most wars throughout history. Rarely has the cause of liberty, as it was in our own revolution, been the driving force.

Fellow citizens: The hour to try your souls and to redeem your pledges has arrived. Stand together in face of the brutal, cowardly enemies of your race! Bring English tyranny to its knees. Pay no rent under any pretext! The government, with its bayonets, will learn in a single Winter how powerless are armed forces against the will of a united determined, and self-reliant nation.

Fight these hateful enemies.

We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.

I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hate.

I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

As Governor of my country, I have been an enemy to its enemies; I have slain the English; I have mortally opposed the English King; I have stormed and taken the towns and castles which he unjustly claimed as his own.

Senseless violence is, almost by definition, hard to understand. Not that I can understand terrorists who kill from hate, but at least we can identify a reason - a terrifying one, to be sure, grounded in a violent belief system - for what they do. Two gangs go to war. Extremists kill in the name of belief.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.