Terry Pratchett Quotes

Those who disagree with the dictator's plan have no other means to carry on than to defeat the despot by force of arms.

The world is a better place because Saddam Hussein does not in Iraq.

A wicked tyrant is better than a wicked war.

If Saddam were to be replaced tomorrow he would probably be replaced with someone who's just as bad or worse than he is.

Unquestionably, the world is better off without Saddam.

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

I think the world is much better off without Saddam Hussein than with him.

Those strutting, heroic figures who destroyed Spanish rule were, it seemed, unable themselves to rule for any significant period of time, or to build lasting institutions. Worse, the cult of personality that grew up around them served as a precedent for the two most serious evils that were to afflict Latin America until well into the late twentieth century – popular dictatorship and caudillismo, military rule – which alternated in many countries, and even sometimes merged, with doubly tragic results. Latin America’s underdevelopment since independence, particularly as compared with the United States, has been largely ascribed to such misgovernment.

I have no enemies, father. I have had them all shot.

Failed states have become breeding grounds for conflict.

The most blood-boltered coup may result merely in a substitution of interchangeable military cliques.

Iraq is better without Saddam Hussein than with Saddam Hussein. Without a doubt.

I don't think anyone would disagree with the conclusion that Saddam [Hussein] was a terrible dictator. He had gassed his own people and his neighbors. He had killed thousands of people, and he had started a couple of wars and destroyed his country.

To build a country, [Joseph] Stalin was obliged to use force and kill. Mao Tse-tung was obliged to use force and kill. To mention only two recent cases, without raking over the whole history of the world.

Who Saddam Hussein kills, dies.

The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!

The war against terrorism is terrorism.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

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

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.

Pinochet took power in a 1973 military coup that the United States supported.

War is the trade of Kings.

One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country.