Armed Aggression Quotes

… the first armed aggression which the world has seen since the end of the war.

I know something about that war, and I never want to see that history repeated. But, my fellow Americans, it certainly can be repeated if the peace-loving democratic nations again fearfully practice a policy of standing idly by while big aggressors use armed force to conquer the small and weak.

I don't think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon.

There is nothing in ANC policy which calls for attacks on civilians in supermarkets, schools, and cinemas unless these are regarded as military installations.

Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.

The United States has become addicted to violence, and this dependency is fueled increasingly by its willingness to wage war at home and abroad. War in this instance is not merely the outgrowth of polices designed to protect the security and well-being of the United States.

How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of every hostile nation? The means of security can only be regulated by the means and the danger of attack. They will, in fact, be ever determined by these rules, and by no others . . . . If one nation maintains constantly a disciplined army, ready for service of ambition or revenge, it obliges the most pacific nations who may be within the reach of its enterprises to take corresponding precautions.

If you see anyone from about sixteen to sixty-five and they’re male, shoot ’em. Kill every male you see.

Afford the native tribes of Africa the protection of British arms against the aggression of Her Majesty’s subjects.

A Christian state should be established [in Lebanon], with its southern border on the Litani river. We will make an alliance with it. When we smash the Arab Legion's strength and bomb Amman, we will eliminate Transjordan too, and then Syria will fall. If Egypt still dares to fight on, we shall bomb Port Said, Alexandria and Cairo.

When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it.

Mental illness, hate and anger exist everywhere, but in America too often it comes armed.

Since its first day as a nation, Israel has lived under a cloud of aggression from militant extremists and hostile neighboring governments.

When Saddam Hussein's Iraqi forces invaded Kuwait in 1990, I felt America's post-Cold War commitment to national principles and international leadership was on the line. I was dismayed by the wide opposition among my fellow Democrats. To me, their position was wrong.

All of the American's foreign wars have been fought with foes either too weak to resist them or too heavily engaged elsewhere to make more than a half-hearted attempt. The combats with Mexico and Spain were not wars; they were simply lynchings.

If Estonia or any member-state was invaded and Article V was not invoked, NATO will fall apart. If it fails once, the alliance will no longer exist.

When she [Turkey] declared that she meant to observe a strict neutrality she was perfectly sincere. It is true that she ordered at the same time a general mobilization, but this was in the nature of a precautionary measure destined to safeguard the security of her territories. A painful experience has taught her … she can be at any time the sudden victim of armed aggression. It is because she would not allow herself any more to be overtaken by such a contingency that she called her entire manhood to arms. It is also true that a German mission headed by General Liman von Sanders is in charge of the reorganization of her land forces, but that does not mean, as some believe, and others, less ingenuous, affect to believe, that she has abdicated into its hands. Turkey has a great regard for Germany, as it seems to me every other nation must have which is not absolutely blinded by prejudice; and may have considered at one time or another the advisability of cooperating with her; but she is not at her beck and call, and has never been.

You cannot build up a standing army and then throw it back into a box like tin soldiers. Armies equipped to the teeth with weapons, with highly developed instruments of murder and backed by their military interests, have their own dynamic functions.