Bao Dai Quotes

Nations have the tendency to be born in blood.

Borders cannot be redrawn in blood.

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.

As Governor of my country, I have been an enemy to its enemies; I have slain the English; I have mortally opposed the English King; I have stormed and taken the towns and castles which he unjustly claimed as his own.

A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.

No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights.

We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.

We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.

It is heroic to prepare for war with a tyrant power. Patriots will always win the admiration of mankind for daring to meet the bloodshed of battle for their country's liberty. But the patriot who is willing to go to that sacrifice will be the first to condemn the aimless and secret shedding of blood in time of peace.

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.

We make war that we may live in peace.

The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence.

I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they will sit back hoping for peace if any nation uses force or the threat of force to acquire dominion over other peoples and other governments.

We are a Nation of peace and compassion, yet these people have and will devote every fiber of their beings to the destruction of Americans and our Country.

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

America has shown its evil intentions, and the proud Iraqi people cannot accept it. They must defend their rights by any means they see fit.

It's a major part of world history that men are trying to kill each other. It's just one slaughter after the other. We talk about it, but no one's really listening.

The poets who have written the best poems about war seem to be the poets whose countries have experienced an invasion or vicious dictatorships.

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out

We’re not occupiers. We’re liberators.

An army is a nation; it is one of the vices of our age.