Tucker Carlson Quotes

Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too.

Iraq is in a civil war. There is no road in that country that is safe.

When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.

Even a war zone looks peaceful in most places, most of the time.

If you look in general at people who live in anarchy, they have quite high rates of death from either homicide or warfare or both. Anarchy is one of the main reasons for violence, and it may be the most important.

Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

What would happen if we withdrew? Anarchy and confusion.

In the Middle East, the opposition is quite different than the opposition in advanced countries. In our countries, the opposition takes the form of explosions, assassinations, killings.

An uncontrollable situation, in which there are no clearly defined spheres of authority, has come about in the country. Under these conditions, normal life is impossible.

In many countries, the authority of the state is weak and openly defied by militias and terrorist groups. In others, state forces themselves act with impunity.

Even in a healthy society, violence, lawlessness, and predation lie just below the surface.

That realm is never long in quiet, where the ruler is a soldier.

Albania in 1994 was the strangest place I've ever seen. It was like walking into the looking glass: falling apart, paranoid people, anarchy, no one farming, full of thieves. It was beyond any Third World country. They were living in their own private nightmare.

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves; better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.

Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff.

Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.

Can any reasonable man be well disposed toward a government which makes war and carnage the only means of supporting itself?

Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?... A gang is a group of men... in which the plunder is divided according to an agreed convention. If this villainy... acquires territory, establishes a base, captures cities and subdues people, it then openly arrogates to itself the title of kingdom.

Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend against other force.

Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit.

War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.

The war tried to kill us in the spring. As grass greened the plains of Nineveh and the weather warmed, we patrolled the low-slung hills beyond the cities and towns. We moved over them and through the tall grass on faith, kneading paths into the windswept growth like pioneers. While we slept, the war rubbed its thousand ribs against the ground in prayer.

Four things greater than all things are Women and horses and power and War.