Pat Buchanan Quotes

...the common sense of Christendom has always prescribed for national policy principles diametrically opposed to those that are laid down in the Sermon on the Mount.

It's never right to fight terror with terror.

I think violence can never be justified.

There are bad people all over the place, and we really can't have a war each time just to get rid of one of these bad people.

Real Christians will abstain from violating the rights of others, and therefore will not provoke war.

You say that you are Christian. If you are really Christian, please stop sending military aid to the military here [El Salvador], because they use it only to kill my people.

I am not a pacifist - I think that violence and self-defence are often morally justified.

Christians, instead of arming themselves with swords, extend their hands in prayer.

Christian ethics demand that you should not take revenge. The paradox is, naturally, that Christians worship a God who is the greatest avenger of them all. Defy him and you burn in eternal hell, an act of revenge which is completely out of proportion to the crime

If somebody stamps on your head in that way, you wouldn't say, 'Thank you very much, can I turn the other cheek'. Only Jesus Christ did that.

I think I'll be going to Heaven, because I had good intentions. But my actions are another thing.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

If I do not respond to some situation, my conscience kills me. I believe in permissible violence, not necessarily non-violence.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

The South is the home of 'an eye for an eye.' 'Turning the other cheek'? The South can't see that.

So I would say God hates war, but God loves every soldier.

Don’t think of it as helping their economy; think of it as burning their fields.

It is better to be killed than to kill.

Jesus Christ was not a pacifist.

There are times when self defense is a religious duty.

I did, in the presence of the Lord God, declare that I denied the wearing or drawing of a carnal sword, or any other outward weapon, against him or any man; and that I was sent of God to stand a witness against all violence, and against the works of darkness; and to turn people from darkness to light; and to bring them from the causes of war and fighting, to the peaceable gospel.

B.B.C. Board. We discuss whether the clergy should use the microphone to preach forgiveness to our enemies. I say I prefer that to the clergy who seek to pretend that the bombing of Cologne was a Christian act. I wish the clergy would keep their mouths shut about the war. It is not of their business.

The world has gone back a half a millennium in its conduct of international relations in time of war…. no nation has to bear a greater blame for this than our own ….As for Hiroshima and Nagasaki, some of us think it was shameful. Are we Christians? We act like pagans.