Civil war Quote by Robert M. T. Hunter Download Open image “What did we go to war for, if not to protect our property?” — Robert M. T. Hunter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civil war Ifs Property Protect War
When we were attacked militarily it was our duty to defend our country. — Arseniy Yatsenyuk Copy Share Image
We believe in defending everyone's lives. We believe in defending everyone's property. — Javier Milei Copy Share Image
This is the true lesson of our history: war, preparation for war, and foreign military interventions have served for the most part not to… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
Unless we can act collectively, there would be no way to defend ourselves, no way to define or enforce property rights. We couldn't curb… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
Why did we go to war? Why did we pick people from South Carolina, California, and all the places in between to go to… — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
In our own native land, in defense of the freedom that is our birthright and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of it. For the protection of our property, acquired solely by the honest industry of our fore-fathers and ourselves, against violence actually offered, we have taken up arms. We shall lay them down when hostilities shall cease… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
I considered the prevention of war as the test of our security policy; in addition to being able to rapidly and forcefully end any… — Yitzhak Rabin Copy Share Image
There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery. — Robert M. T. Hunter Copy Share Image
“Time overlaps itself. A breath breathed from a passing breeze is not the whole wind, neither is it just the last of what has passed and the first of what will come, but is more--let me see--more like a single point plucked on a single strand of a vast spider web of winds, setting the whole scene atingle. That way;… — Ken Kesey Copy Share
“Whatever happened in those more than one hundred years, from the time my great-great-great grandfather studied law to the time when my own father took his bar exam in 1989, I may never know. Perhaps it was just greed and the good, old-fashion corruption that comes with power. The Drexlers have moved from the fight for human rights to the… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share
“AUSTRALIA, LIKE THE UNITED STATES, experienced a different path to inclusive institutions than the one taken by England. The same revolutions that shook England during the Civil War and then the Glorious Revolution were not needed in the United States or Australia because of the very different circumstances in which those countries were founded—though this of course does not mean… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share
“These are all good things, I said. But no one knows where your country is or who you are. You don't have a familiar ethnic cuisine; your diaspora , from what I understand, is mostly in Southern California, three time zones removed from the national media in New York; and you don't have a recognizable, long-simmering conflict like the one… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share
“Thinking about the weather was one way of shutting out of his mind the appalling bloody human mess sprawled out over the bed of this seedy hotel room in central London. The sight and smell was sickening - even to a hardened detective like him. Felling the bile rising in his throat again, he hurried out into the dimly lit… — Mark Ellis Copy Share
It cost about 75 cents to kill a man in Ceasar's time. The price rose to about $3,000 per man during the Napoleonic wars;… — Homer Bone Copy Share Image
“ “In the South, football is confused with religion, chivalry, the Civil War, and women.” -Diane Roberts, The Quotable South ” — Deborah Ford Copy Share
Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
You must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
“Civil wars...are the best wars for the writer...because they have a way of continuing long afterwl wars between nations are resolved; because, with the… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
I am out of money,we are all out of money,but we dont need money down here- Dont need anything but Men , Muskets, Ammunition, Hard Tack, Bacon and Letters from home. — James A. Connolly Copy Share
