Donald Trump Quotes

This don't go here. [A major riot ensued.]

Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.

The world is in such a place of social unrest and there's so much violence.

No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there's no future in riots.

We hoped against hope that what we had been doing was enough to prevent a riot. It was not enough.

I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots.

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

Government violence can only do one thing and that is to breed counter-violence.

America cannot function if we are a society fueled by riots.

On one side the government, the other side the mob.

Without real nonviolence, there would be perfect anarchy.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

I could see flames from the windows of my chambers. For the next three or four days we had major rioting here in Washington and I stayed at the court day and night.

My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.

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

Panamanians live in a chronic state of insurrection and violence.

The difficulties of peace are better than the agony of war

We paid a big price for not stopping it -- that is the looting and the security -- because it established an atmosphere of lawlessness. We never had enough troops on the ground

When civil fury first grew high And men fell out they knew not why.

Riot makes for ruin. Reason makes for solution.

A demonstration sometimes doesn’t stop with expressing opinion….it moves to incitement to violence and then to violence

Yesterday a crowd of women assembled on the public square and marching thence down Main, sacked several shoe, grocery and other stores. Their pretense was bread; but their motive really was license. Few of them have really felt want. The President went down amongst them and said a few words to them telling them that the course they were pursuing was the one most likely to bring scarcity of food on the city.... It was a real women’s riot, but as yet there is really little cause for one—there is scarcity, but little want.

When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed. For there is often a monstrous incongruity between the hopes, however noble and tender, and the action which follows them. It is as if ivied maidens and garlanded youths were to herald the four horsemen of the apocalypse.

In order for non-violence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.

Democracy for people who are not used to it can undermine stability, resulting in war.