A question of what is right

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. 
They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and 
our people, and neither do we.
George W Bush at signing ceremony
for a $417 billion defence spending bill. August 5, 2004

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war 
and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock 
and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not 
reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not 
stake their own.
H G Wells

I have a great admiration for the Nazi organisation of 
Germany. There is a case for Germany against Czechoslovakia. We 
must not destroy Hitlerism or talk about shooting Hitler, the 
gunman of Europe.
Remark by Robert Menzies to Gerald Mahoney, Labour MHR
as reported in Hansard, page 337, Second Session 1940.

We're not a democracy. It's a terrible misunderstanding and a 
slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, 
we're a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy.
Ramsey Clark, former US Attorney General

A man who has in mind an apparent advantage and promptly 
proceeds to dissociate this from the question of what is right 
shows himself to be mistaken and immoral. Such a standpoint is 
the parent of assassinations, poisonings, forged wills, thefts, 
malversations of public money, and the ruinous exploitation of 
provincials and Roman citizens alike. Another result is 
passionate desire — desire for excessive wealth, for unendurable 
tyranny, and ultimately for the despotic seizure of free states. 
These desires are the most horrible and repulsive things 
imaginable.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BCE)