Invaders Quotes

• Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.

  Thomas Paine

  Motivation, Fear, Gun

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• A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.

  Samuel Adams

  America, Enemy, Liberty

  Samuel Adams (1968). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1778-1802”

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• I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Travel, Dirty, Naughty

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• There is much to be said for having an experienced international jurist who is entirely unconnected with the allied invaders, on the tribunal.

  Saddam Hussein

  Hussein, Said, Saddam

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Forever, Population, Arms

  "Fictional character: Citizen G'Kar". Babylon 5 (TV Series), www.imdb.com. 1994-1998.

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• Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order.

  Thomas Paine

  Gun, Order, Law

  Thomas Paine (2014). “Selected Writings of Thomas Paine”, p.4, Yale University Press

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• If the invaders reach Iran, the country will turn into a burning hell for them.

  Mohammad Khatami

  Country, Iran, Burning

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• The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a voluntary basis, which will restrain invaders by any means that may prove necessary.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Mean, Answers, May

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1893). “Instead of a Book”, Ayer Company Pub

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• All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.

  Rachel Dratch

  Space, Lasts, Remember

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• The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Justice, Cost, Paid

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• But now I have a lot of little kids who watched Invader Zim whenever they could find it on television.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Kids, Television, Littles

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• The ambiguous orientation of Japan drove the country into the position of an invader in Asia.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Country, Japan, Asia

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• No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Freedom, Learning, Army

  "Babylon 5". www.imdb.com. 1994–1998.

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• No invader has ever conquered the heart of Poland, that spirit which is the inheritance of sons and daughters, the private passion of families and the ancient, unbreakable tie to all those who came before.

  James A. Michener

  Daughter, Passion, Heart

  "Poland". Book by James A. Michener, 1983.

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• Is it possible, then, to doubt that we can and must gain victory over the German invaders? The enemy is not as strong as some terror-stricken pseudo-intellectuals picture him. The devil is not as terrible as he is painted.

  Joseph Stalin

  Strong, Doubt, Enemy

  Speech on the 24th Anniversary of the Revolution, November 7, 1941.

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• Let no stranger intrude here, no invader trespass. This was ours, and this we would defend.

  John Marsden

  Stranger

  John Marsden (1997). “The Dead of Night”, p.72, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This war did not spring up on our land, this war was brought upon us by the children of the Great Father who came to take our land without a price, and who, in our land, do a great many evil things... This war has come from robbery - from the stealing of our land.

  Spotted Tail

  Children, Father, Spring

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• Still, it is the primary right of men to die and kill for the land they live in, and to punish with exceptional severity all members of their own race who have warmed their hands at the invaders' hearth.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Race, Hands

  Winston Churchill (1995). “Churchill's History of the English-speaking Peoples”, Barnes & Noble

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• For no People will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can they easily be subdued, where Knowledge is diffusd and Virtue preservd . On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own Weight, without the Aid of foreign Invaders.

  Samuel Adams

  Patriotic, People, Ignorant

  "Warren-Adams Letters: Being Chiefly a Correspondence Among John Adams, Samuel Adams, and James Warren ... 1743-1814".

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• No people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery, but when they deserv'd it. ...The truth is, all might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they ought. ...If therefore a people will not be free; if they have not virtue enough to maintain their liberty against a presumptuous invader, they deserve no pity, and are to be treated with contempt and ignominy.

  Samuel Adams

  People, Liberty, Yoke

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• The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by an invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing.

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, Skulls, Mind

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• Who will find peace with the lands? The future of humankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up their responsibilities to all living things. Who will listen to the trees, the animals and birds, the voices of the places of the land? As the long forgotten peoples of the respective continents rise and begin to reclaim their ancient heritage, they will discover the meaning of the lands of their ancestors. That is when the invaders of the North American continent will finally discover that for this land, God is red.

  Vine Deloria Jr.

  Lying, Responsibility, Animal

  "God Is Red". Book by Vine Deloria Jr., 1973.

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• I'm standing up for the right of self-determination. I'm standing up for our territory. I'm standing up for our people. I'm standing up for international law. I'm standing up for all those territories - those small territories and peoples the world over - who, if someone doesn't stand up and say to an invader 'enough, stop', would be at risk.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Determination, Self, Law

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• Remember that movie Independence Day, where invaders were coming from outer space and the whole world was united against the invasion? Why can't we be united on behalf of our planet? And that's what I want to do.

  Hillary Clinton

  Space, Independence, World

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• Here is one of the points about this planet which should be remembered; into every penetrable corner of it, and into most of the impenetrable corners, the English will penetrate. They are like that; born invaders. They cannot stay at home.

  Rose Macaulay

  Home, England, Born

  1926 Crewe Train, pt.1, ch.1.

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