Carl von Clausewitz quote: “The conqueror is always a lover of peace; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.”

“Human beings always say they prefer peace, but it takes a saint to talk us into not assaulting our neighbors.”

John Barnes book Earth Made of Glass

Earth Made of Glass (1998)

“You would always prefer to give back to your own country first but the way Mahela conducted himself as a player for Sri Lanka over the years has been exemplary”

Mahela Jayawardene (1977) Former Sri Lankan cricketer

Kumar Sangakkara on Mahela as a coaching consultant for England, quoted on The Guardian, "Kumar Sangakkara: England made smart move on mentor Mahela Jayawardene" http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/mar/13/kumar-sangakkara-england-mahela-jayawardene-world-twenty20-sri-lanka, March 13, 2016.
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“You would always prefer to give back to your own country first but the way Mahela conducted himself as a player for Sri Lanka over the years has been exemplary”

Kumar Sangakkara (1977) Sri Lankan cricketer

Kumar Sangakkara on Mahela as a coaching consultant for England, quoted on The Guardian, "Kumar Sangakkara: England made smart move on mentor Mahela Jayawardene" http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/mar/13/kumar-sangakkara-england-mahela-jayawardene-world-twenty20-sri-lanka, March 13, 2016.

“I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.”

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

“The Tory is one who is governed by sense and habit alone. He considers not what is possible, but what is real; he gives might the preference over right. He cries long life to the conqueror, and is ever strong upon the stronger side — the side of corruption and prerogative.”

William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer

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Political Essays (1819)

“Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, “What kind of peace?”

Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist

“This is the soldier brave enough to tell
The glory-dazzled world that "war is hell":
Lover of peace, he looks beyond the strife,
And rides through hell to save his country's life.”

Henry Van Dyke (1852–1933) American diplomat

The Statue of Sherman by St. Gaudens (1904).

“The girl traced the outline of her lover's shadow so she would always have a record of how he looked…”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

“There is, in the institutions of this country, one principle, which, had they no other excellence, would secure to them the preference over those of all other countries. I mean — and some devout patriots will start — I mean the principle of change.”

Frances Wright (1795–1852) American activist

Independence Day speech (1828)
Context: There is, in the institutions of this country, one principle, which, had they no other excellence, would secure to them the preference over those of all other countries. I mean — and some devout patriots will start — I mean the principle of change.
I have used a word to which is attached an obnoxious meaning. Speak of change, and the world is in alarm. And yet where do we not see change? What is there in the physical world but change? And what would there be in the moral world without change?

“I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days.”

Jon Stewart (1962) American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian

“The conqueror is always a lover of peace; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.”

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