Robert Mugabe Quotes

Insurgencies are nearly as old as warfare itself.

An armistice—a cessation of hostilities—is the end of the struggle, and the insurgents would be in peaceable possession of all that has been struggled for.

My father believed in armed struggle.

War is failure of diplomacy.

Arm yourselves! Return home and kill every goddamned mine guard on the creeks.

Head for jihad and have your guns ready.

The word 'insurgency' had connotations that really sent a shiver down the spine of folks in Washington, in the United States - for good reason, because it means this is something much bigger than just a few terrorist cells.

Jihad and the rifle alone. NO negotiations, NO conferences and NO dialogue

To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife.

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

There is no clear or meaningful difference between insurgency and civil war, or between national terrorism and civil war for that matter.

In principle... no government in the world can accept an armed terrorist group, some of them coming from abroad, controlling streets and villages in the name of 'jihad'.

How do I feel about war? Well anybody I guess, I hope, I don't like it.

While I write this letter, I have a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other.

They called themselves an army. They were planning on recruiting more armies. They were planning on splitting up and forming smaller cells and going into different areas, recruiting more members and just growing until they had started a full scale war in this country.

Never short of guns and guerrillas, Afghanistan has proven fertile ground for a host of insurgent groups in addition to the Taliban.

To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

It is far easier to make war than peace.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

We're still stymied by the old stand-off between those who wish to fight terrorism and resistance fighters.

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

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon.