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Whoever uses force without Right ... puts himself into a state of War with those, against whom he uses it, and in that state all former Ties are canceled, all other Rights cease, and every one has a Right to defend himself, and to resist the Aggressor. -- John Locke
History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor. -- Mahmoud Darwish
Most of my fights, I push the pace. I'm the aggressor. -- Clay Guida
Saddam is a familiar dictatorial aggressor, with traditional goals for his aggression. -- Brent Scowcroft
In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor. -- Paul Harris
Allah is on our side. That is why we will beat the aggressor. -- Saddam Hussein
Israel cannot afford to stand against the entire world and be denounced as the aggressor. -- Moshe Dayan
It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
An aggressor nation or extremist group could gain control of critical switches and derail passenger trains, or trains loaded with lethal chemicals. -- Leon Panetta
All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side. -- George Wald
When an aggressor force continually launches attacks from a particular base of operations, it is sound military strategy to take the flight to the enemy. -- Timothy McVeigh
To those who don't know the historical truth, I would like to say today, Poland was not an aggressor but a victim during the Second World War. -- Ewa Kopacz
In 'The King's Speech,' patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the third of September, 1939, where the aggressor is clear, the fight is clear, it hasn't become complicated over time. -- Tom Hooper
But to cut off relations with an aggressor may often invite retaliation by armed action, and this would, in its turn, make necessary some form of collective self-defence by the loyal members of the League. -- Arthur Henderson
We have helped to organize the United Nations. We believe it will stop aggressor nations from starting wars. Because we believe it, we intend to support the United Nations organization with all the power and resources we possess. -- James F. Byrnes
Libertarians regard the state as the Supreme, the eternal, the best organized aggressor against the persons and property of the mass of the public. All states everywhere, whether democratic, dictatorial, or monarchical, whether red, white, blue or brown. -- Murray Rothbard
In that wide struggle which we call Progress, evil is always the aggressor and the vanquished, and it is right that this should be so, for without its onslaughts and depredations humanity might fall to a fat slumber upon its cornsacks and die snoring. -- James Stephens
I was never a big guy in pubs. I was never the main kind of aggressor or anything like that, but I found myself in trouble because I always had a mouth that would come back with something, and there was just never anyone who could make me be quiet. -- Dominic Monaghan
What the American people want to do is fight a war without getting hurt. You can't do that any more than you can get into a barroom fight without getting hurt... Unless the American people are willing to send their sons out to fight an aggressor, there just isn't going to be any United States. -- Chesty Puller
Appeasement only makes the aggressor more aggressive. -- Dean Rusk
In a war the aggressor sets the rules. -- Rush Limbaugh
Usually, a well thought answer makes an aggressor think twice. -- Helio Gracie
The most complete revenge is not to imitate the aggressor. -- Marcus Aurelius
The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength-and strength alone. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I had learned that you should always shout louder than your aggressor. -- Marjane Satrapi
At the U.N., any nation that fights back is censored as an "aggressor." -- Sam Levenson
In no other type of warfare does the advantage lie so heavily with the aggressor. -- James Franck
They jumped on us. They were the aggressor. They had us on our heels from the beginning. -- LeBron James
There is no shame in being a survivor of sexual violence. The shame is on the aggressor. -- Angelina Jolie
In my experience of fights and fighting, it is invariably the aggressor who keeps getting everything wrong. -- Martin Amis
Russia has two bases outside of Russia. America has 178 military bases throughout the world. Who's the aggressor? -- Jesse Ventura
No Big Power in all history ever thought of itself as an aggressor. That is still true today. -- A. J. Muste
Undertaking initially to protect its citizens against aggression, [government] has often itself become "¦ a far greater aggressor. -- John Hospers
When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse. -- Ta-Nehisi Coates
...according to the teachings of Islam, war is to be waged not against the enemy but against the aggressor. (p. 49) -- Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
according to the teachings of Islam, war is to be waged not against the enemy but against the aggressor. (p. 49) -- Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
Our arms must be mighty ... ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice. -- Voltaire
Wars are not caused by the buildup of weapons. They are caused when an aggressor believes he can achieve his objectives at an acceptable price. -- Margaret Thatcher
The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor. -- Ronald Reagan
For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The nature of a panther is that he never attacks. But if anyone attacks or backs into a corner, the panther comes up to wipe that aggressor or that attacker out. -- Huey Newton
Fight back! Whenever you are offered violence, fight back! The aggressor does not fear the law, so he must be taught to fear you. Whatever the risk, and at whatever the cost, fight back! -- Jeff Cooper
The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that we can achieve our objective at the conference table, and deny the aggressor theirs. -- Richard M. Nixon
Against naked force the only possible defense is naked force. The aggressor makes the rules for such a war; the defenders have no alternative but matching destruction with more destruction, slaughter with greater slaughter. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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