Elbridge Gerry Quotes

Panamanians live in a chronic state of insurrection and violence.

I said to the president's wife, Vietnam is the main reason we are having trouble with the youth of America. It is a war without explanation or reason.

There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?

So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence.

I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.

Syria is already in the grips of a civil war, unfortunately enough, and Egypt is moving in that direction. We would like to see the Egyptian people avoid this fate.

There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

We're on the verge of civil war in Northern Ireland. Why? Because if you take away the forums of democracy you don't have anything left.

Nullification means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down.

The later it gets the more disturbed the city becomes. I go with Albert through the streets. Men are standing in groups at every corner. Rumours are flying. It is said that the military have already fired on a procession of demonstrating workers.

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.

If the French delirium is not properly repressed, it may be more or less fatal to the heart of Europe for the pestilential air must inevitably ravage and destroy everything it approaches.

It was a bad looking mob. It was animated by the essence of revolution.

Coups are chaotic.

Two things are from now on impossible in France: revolution and war.

Failed states have become breeding grounds for conflict.

'Madras Cafe' is set against the backdrop of the civil war in Sri Lanka in the 1990s.

With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.

Strikes and boycotting are akin to war, and can be justified only on grounds analogous to those which justify war, viz., intolerable injustice and oppression.

You'd have civil war. You'd have a race war in this country.

It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.

Egypt is in the second day of angry street protests. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is calling for calm. Because nothing calms an enraged Arab country like a powerful woman ordering it around.

A revolution is sometimes necessary, but if revolutions become habitual the country in which they take place is going down-hill