Best Invasion Proverbs
246 Invasion quotes by 209 unique authors
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A people armed and free, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition and is a bulwark for the nation against foreign invasion and domestic…
— James Madison
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When I was first sent from H.M.S. King Alfred to be interviewed by Goodeve in the Admiralty, I was furious. The War seemed to me,…
— Nevil Shute
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When the Normandy Invasion was planned, a very specific strategic objective was given, and that strategic objective was the basis upon which the plan for…
— Norman Schwarzkopf
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I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Saddam Hussein could have provided irreplaceable help to future historians of the Iran/Iraq war, of the invasion of Kuwait, and of the subsequent era of…
— Richard Dawkins
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The first time I went to Iraq was October 2002, when Saddam was still in power, and then, subsequently, in January of 2003, about three-and-a-half…
— Farnaz Fassihi
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1936 is a very important year: a golden time for martial arts, right before the Japanese invasion.
— Wong Kar-wai
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I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Two European nations emerged with credit from the Iraq disaster: France and Germany. Both had the courage to withstand the Bush administration and oppose the…
— Martin Jacques
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In the aftermath of 9/11 and in the build-up to the invasion of Iraq, few questioned the idea that the United States was likely to…
— Martin Jacques
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The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock.
— Noam Chomsky
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
— Noam Chomsky
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When Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, the U.N. vetoed several resolutions right away, calling for an end to the fighting and so on, and that…
— Noam Chomsky
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Iran has little capacity to deploy force. Its strategic doctrines are defensive, designed to deter invasion long enough for diplomacy to set it.
— Noam Chomsky
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Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act in the first…
— Noam Chomsky
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Radio was used powerfully by Josef Goebbels to disseminate Nazi propaganda, and just as powerfully by King George VI to inspire the British people to…
— Rebecca MacKinnon
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When I worry about privacy, I worry about peer-to-peer invasion of privacy. About the fact that anytime anything of any note happens, there are three…
— Jonathan Zittrain
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My journalistic mission was straightforward: to await the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Nobody knew quite when this would be. But the diplomacy - the meetings…
— Luke Harding
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The Second World War is and was constantly being drudged up by Blair and Bush to rationalize the invasion of Iraq.
— Robert Fisk
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Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the…
— Sam Childers
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My family was in Singapore when the Japanese War started. We were in Singapore at the time of Pearl Harbor, and by the beginning of…
— Tom Stoppard
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During the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the military conducted only a handful of drone missions.
— Michael Hastings
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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
— Victor Hugo
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The responsibility of commanding the invasion fell to me, and the task was assigned to my Army Group.
— Gerd von Rundstedt
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When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of…
— Antonio Tabucchi
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