Bruce Feirstein Quotes

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

If words suffice not, blows must follow.

A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

Force is not a remedy.

Dive on them and squash them if you must.

I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.

The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

War therefore is an act of violence to compel our opponent to fulfill our will.

I don’t care what the international lawyers say, we are going to kick some ass.

Let none presume to tell me that the pen is preferable to the sword.

War is an act of force to compel our enemy to do our will.

There’s no reason to respect anyone’s word in that part of the world. The only thing they respect is force and the threat of force.

A union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets … has no charm for me.

The end of war is to procure by force the justice which cannot otherwise be obtained.

I am too realistic to believe in pacifism. But, nevertheless, the use of force should always be the last resort.

The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations.

The South does not understand anything but the language of the gun.

Desperate times require desperate measures. Violence is not only the answer. It is the only answer.

… morality ends where the gun begins.