“ Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. Edward Everett Former U.S. Senator
“ Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse? Virginia Woolf Writer
“ What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea coasts, our army and our navy... Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in us. Our defense is in the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism at your own doors... You have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you. Abraham Lincoln 16th U.S. President
“ This [a state militia system] appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against it, if it should exist. Alexander Hamilton Founding Father Of The United States
“ My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace. Alfred Nobel Chemist