Belligerent Quotes

I get a little belligerent when not enough protesters show up at my appearances.

Ariel Sharon is a bellicose man who seemed to be chomping at the bit to start a war

I am a man of peace [so he told Mother, but it always appeared to me that he was the most belligerent man of peace I had ever encountered]

I always took a fight; I always took everybody. I fought everybody.

This nation has given the world an object lesson in the whole duty of neutrals, which is to furnish an outlet for the wrath of a belligerent who is annoyed because he cannot defeat his opponent.

No one expects a belligerent to tell the truth.

Even when I was a little punk kid, I would fight anybody - it didn't matter. That's who I've been my whole life.

Although anti-Slavery is weak in political circles, it was never stronger with the masses of the people. The great heart of the country is sound. Thousands and millions of true men all over the North wait but the occasion for a practical demonstration of their power, to show how firm is their attachment to the principles of freedom, and how deeply they scorn the shallow fools who have the impertinence to talk about "crushing out" those principles. We expect to see Slavery go on pressing and pushing the advantages it derived from the adjustment of 1850, till a reaction is created that will again convulse the country to its center. Slavery is imperious, encroaching, truculent, belligerent. Its own conduct will thus ultimately generate an explosive force that must blow it to atoms.

Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.

The logic of war seems to be if the belligerent can fight, he will fight. That leaders will not surrender until surrender is academic. How is a national leader to explain the sacrifice of so much for nothing?