Logo
Quote by Robert McNamara
Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him. – Robert McNamara

Other quotes by Robert McNamara

We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo – men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win? – Robert McNamara

Category:
Death
Author
Robert McNamara
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Freedom
category

What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities. – Ben Nelson

Category:
Freedom

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others – partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions. – Todd Gitlin

Category:
Freedom

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. – Mark Twain

Category:
Freedom

Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific. – Joichi Ito

Category:
Freedom

Random Quotes

I am not a member of the CIA or any other intelligence agency. – James R. Bath

Category:
Intelligence

Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him. – Aeschylus

Category:
God

Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself. – Lewis Thomas

Category:
Nature

Life is a dream walking death is a going home. – Chinese Proverb

Category:
Death