Robert M. La Follette Quotes

Fascism means war.

Wherever it [Democracy] has had free play in the ancient world or in the modern, in the old hemisphere or the new, a thirst for empire, and a readiness for aggressive war, has always marked it.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.

Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.

Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.

The only way to save our empires from the encroaching of the people is to engage in war, and thus substitute national passions for social aspirations.

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

Every nation is a band of robbers, who prey without restraint, or remorse, on their neighbors.

It is absurd to believe in the possibility of perpetual peace...Fascist education must be education for battle. Fascism believes in sanctity and heroism.

There can be no peace until this German spirit of Militarism is crushed.

If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.

After the Meiji restoration in 1868, Japan adopted an expansionist and colonial attitude towards its neighbours. It sought to identify itself with the West and looked down upon the Asian continent as backward and inferior. For most of the next 70 years, Japan was at war, mainly with its neighbours.

All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

The imperial, genocidal war machine never rests, so I don't either.

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.

The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

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