Aggressor Quotes
Historical lines on identifying and resisting an aggressor.
These Aggressor quotes span a 1939 wartime drama where the aggressor and the fight are described as unmistakably clear, to a philosophical claim that any state can act as an aggressor toward its own people. Related ideas continue in Action quotes.
In 'The King's Speech,' patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the third of September, 1939, where the aggressor is clear, the fight is clear, it hasn't become complicated over time.
Libertarians regard the state as the Supreme, the eternal, the best organized aggressor against the persons and property of the mass of the public. All states everywhere, whether democratic, dictatorial, or monarchical, whether red, white, blue or brown.
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An aggressor will always push forward and do more until he meets resistance. We've seen that time and time again over history.
Saddam Hussein is a risk-taking aggressor who has attacked four countries, used chemical weapons against his own people, professed a desire to harm the United States and its allies, and, even faced with the prospect of his regime's imminent destruction,...
Abide Quotes
It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.
We have helped to organize the United Nations. We believe it will stop aggressor nations from starting wars. Because we believe it, we intend to support the United Nations organization with all the power and resources we possess.
All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.
To those who don't know the historical truth, I would like to say today, Poland was not an aggressor but a victim during the Second World War.
I was never a big guy in pubs. I was never the main kind of aggressor or anything like that, but I found myself in trouble because I always had a mouth that would come back with something, and there...
Acting Quotes
But to cut off relations with an aggressor may often invite retaliation by armed action, and this would, in its turn, make necessary some form of collective self-defence by the loyal members of the League.
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Later foreign-policy history surfaces too, referencing a well-documented case of a leader who invaded neighboring countries and used chemical weapons. For a broader look at pushing back under pressure, see Abide quotes.
