"Against naked force the only possible defense is……" — Franklin D. Roosevelt

More Aggressor Quotes

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• The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights.… — Ronald Reagan
• For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
• The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength-and strength alone. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
• The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that… — Richard M. Nixon
• Without doubt one is allowed to resist against the unjust aggressor to one's life, one's goods or one's physical integrity;… — Thomas Aquinas
• So great are the psychological restistances to war in modern nations, that every war must appear to be a war… — Harold Lasswell
• Allah is on our side. That is why we will beat the aggressor. — Saddam Hussein
• With the indiscriminate nature of modern military technology (no such thing as a "smart bomb," it turns out) all wars… — Howard Zinn
• I was never a big guy in pubs. I was never the main kind of aggressor or anything like that,… — Dominic Monaghan
• History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor. — Mahmoud Darwish
• And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world.… — Mark Twain
• While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment… — Pope Benedict XVI

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