Kenneth Roth Quotes

Laws are silent in time of war.

There are laws for peace as well as war.

In time of war the laws are silent.

The law is silent during war. Silent leges inter arma.

A democracy cannot wage war. When you go to war, you pass a law giving extraordinary power to the President. The people of the country assume when the emergency is over, the rights and powers that were temporarily delegated to the Chief Executive will be returned to the states, counties and to the people.

Nothing can justify war.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

During war, the laws are silent.

To invent a war means that you've become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.

A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

War is failure of diplomacy.

But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.

It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.

In these days of intimate relations, of economic stress and of intense desire to protect national interests and advance national opportunity, the treatment of questions which, from a legal standpoint, are domestic, often seriously affects international relations. The principle, each nation for itself to the full extent of its powers, is the principle of war, not of peace.

We're not going to spread democracy at the business end of a M16 held by a 23 year old Marine.

You can’t take military action in war without the support of government.

If we cannot secure our needs for survival on the basis of law and justice, then we must be ready to secure them with army in our hands.

It is essential that a government mold itself … to the nature of the circumstances, the times, and the men that comprise it. If these factors are prosperity and peace, the government should be mild and protecting; but if they are turbulence and disaster, it should be stern and arm itself with a firmness that matches its dangers, without regard for laws or constitutions until happiness and peace have been reestablished.

We have long since made clear that a state of war is not a blank check for the President when it comes to the rights of the Nation’s citizens.

There are two things that will always be difficult for a democratic people to do: to start a war and to finish it

Under our Constitution the Congress alone has the power to declare war.

The strike weapon is overboard, not only for the duration of the war, but after the war too.

Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation. Bella suscipienda sunt ob eam causam, ut sine injuria in pace vivatur.

Law stands mute in the midst of arms