Sunday, April 18, 2004

"Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few… No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."

-- James Madison, 4th President of the United States, August 1793

"Delicate social and political problems cannot be bombed or 'missiled' out of existence... Violence can be likened to a virus; the more you bombard it, the more it spreads."

-- James Bill and Rebecca Bill Chavez, Middle East Journal, autumn 2002

I'm a dirty hippy.