Quotes about invaders (15 Quotes)


    No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffusd and Virtue is preservd. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauchd in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders.



    He left me no doubt that if invaders come, they will be resisted and resisted on a very large scale, city by city, street by street, house by house, rooftop by rooftop, and a lot of blood will be shed, ... And not all of it will be Iraqi.

    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.


    Ours was a marriage, a love affair -- the land would nurture us, and we would honor the land. But the land was too rich and too good. The powerful and greedy invaders saw this at once.


    We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now and then Then was the old world. Stage-coaches, more or less swift, riding-horses, pack-horses, highwaymen, knights in armor, Norman invaders, Roman legions, Druids, Ancient Britons painted blue, and so forth -- all these belong to the old period. But your railroad starts the new era, and we of a certain age belong to the new time and the old one. We who lived before railways, and survive out of the ancient world, are like Father Noah and his family out of the Ark.

    There were three motives that brought invaders crossing the oceans to discover America. Those were gold, gospel, glory. There are four motives that bring the alien crossing the heavens to discover planet earth. Those are gold, gospel, glory, gene.



    Northeast China was occupied by the Japanese invaders for 14 years and my hometown Taiwan was even under the control of the Japanese for 50 years. These are the great shame of our nationality,

    Part of the magic of Martha's Vineyard is that we were, all of us, more free here than any place else, ... On the island, we did not worry about our personal security. We did not lock doors we left keys under the mat in the car, slept with windows wide open, absent the need to protect person or property from outside invaders.

    The only proper purpose of a government is to protect mans rights, which means to protect him from physical violence.... The only proper functions of a government are the police, to protect you from criminals the army, to protect you from foreign invaders and the courts, to protect your property and contracts from breach or fraud by others, and to settle disputes by rational rules, according to objective law.




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