Timothy McVeigh Quotes

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• I believe we are slowly turning into a socialist government. The government is continually growing bigger and more powerful and the people need to prepare…
• I have sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and I will....I have come to peace with myself, my…
• I wish to use the words of Justice Brandeis dissenting in Olmstead to speak for me. He wrote, 'Our government is the potent, the omnipresent…
• Do we have to shed blood to reform the current system? I hope it doesn't come to that! But it might.
• If there is a hell, then I'll be in good company with a lot of fighter pilots who also had to bomb innocents to win…
• Additionally, borrowing a page from U.S. foreign policy, I decided to send a message to a government that was becoming increasingly hostile.
• Bombing the Murrah Federal Building was morally and strategically equivalent to the U.S. hitting a government building in Serbia, Iraq, or other nations.
• When an aggressor force continually launches attacks from a particular base of operations, it is sound military strategy to take the flight to the enemy.
• Whether you wish to admit it or not, when you approve, morally, of the bombing of foreign targets by the U.S. military, you are approving…
• I have great respect for human life. My decision to take human life at the Murrah Building – I did not do it for personal…
• I understand what they felt in Oklahoma City. I have no sympathy for them.
• You can't handle the truth. Because the truth is, I blew up the Murrah building and isn't it kind of scary that one man could…
• It might have changed my whole plan of operation if I'd read that one first.
• I was raised Catholic. I was confirmed Catholic (received the sacrament of confirmation). Through my military years, I sort of lost touch with the religion.…
• But that's the nature of the beast. It's understood going in what the human toll will be.
• I explain this not for publicity, nor seeking to win an argument of right or wrong, I explain so that the record is clear as…
• After living on the edge, the adrenalin, some people in the military get addicted. Anything else seem boring. They have to have the excitement.
• Kids are fair game; women are fair game.
• Based on observations of the policies of my own government, I viewed this action as an acceptable option.
• I do believe in a God, yes. But that's as far as I want to discuss. If I get too detailed on some things that…

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