"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
"For a pocket full of mumbles, such are promises / All lies and jests / Still a man hears what he wants to hear / And disregards the rest" ~ Paul Simon, "The Boxer"
"Why can't you just get it through your head / It's over, it's over now / Yes you heard me clearly now I said / It's over, it's over now" ~ Boz Scagges
"[Those] who, scolded ... for... insubordination, justify themselves by saying that they invented new rules of propriety according to which they are quite well- behaved." ~ Franz Grillparzer