Nigel Farage Quotes

Mature democracies may not fight one another, but immature ones do- and are even more prone to war than authoritarian regimes.

Confronting nondemocracies, established democracies area about as warlike as normal dictatorships.

Democracies don't war; democracies are peaceful countries.

I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country.

So a truthful assessment of how America is doing in the war on terror as a result of President Bush's war on Iraq is that we have been set back by decades.

When you scan the globe's hot spots, every civil war and massacre, every act of terror and every clash between states has its unique local circumstances.

Until fighting ends and there are conditions, which allow the free expression of will by the people, there can be no elections and elections are not held in these circumstances anywhere in the world.

The idea that democracies never make war on each other rests on very thin historical ice.

Turn on your television and see what happens when nations settle their internal differences with guns.

When foreign affairs were ruled by autocracies or oligarchies the danger of war was in sinister purpose. When foreign affairs are ruled by democracies the danger of war will be in mistaken beliefs.

I do worry about civil unrest, or complete collapse of society, or having to flee, or Europe falling into a war.

Several experts on the Middle East concur that the Middle East cannot be democratized.

Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies.

Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.

Overseas, America's fighting men and women have been waging war against those who would attack America and plunge the world into a period of darkness, and their success can easily be seen.

Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.

Those of us who actually were working in the region at the time will point out how strongly committed we were to supporting the democratic process and encouraging elections, in spite of the fact that a war was going on in several of these countries.

Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time?

In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.

War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy.

Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate.

Those are serious questions of war and peace, of freedom or tyranny, whether or not there is ever going to be a hope of us instilling some democratic systems in a part of the world that frankly is breeding hate and destruction directed right at us.

Life has become terribly insecure. It's on the vortex of civil war. It's difficult to know how America will bring it back from the brink and build up good will.

There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.

It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century.