Quotes About Intervention

No one has deputized America to play Wyatt Earp to the world.

No matter how tough Iraq became, removing Saddam Hussein was the right thing to do for the sake of peace and for the 25 million people we liberated.

Don't make me come down there. - God

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

They love us everywhere we go. So when in doubt, send the Marines.

It doesn't matter what we think we are there [in Afghanistan] for; it matters what they think. They think we are invaders.

In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes.

Tikka Khan won't try to stick his nose in politics.

Military missions cannot be a normal tool of politics, but instead must remain the great exception.

You don't need to wait for God to show up, in order to be rescued from your bad situation. God has been trying to get your attention for a really long time.

I am one of those people who are blessed ... with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.

[Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be seized by the most power-hungry and unscrupulous.

I say to all those leaders, do not look the other way. Do not hesitate... It is within your power to avoid a genocide of humanity.

Those who would circumcise, implicitly suggest that they know better than nature, God, or whatever power created us and our world.

If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it.

It is a misuse of our power to take responsibility for solving problems that belong to others.

What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise?

Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church.

The United States is not concerned with this thing called 'democracy', no matter how many times every American president uses the word each time he opens his mouth. As noted in the Introduction, since 1945 the US has attempted to overthrow more than fifty governments, most of which were democratically elected, and grossly interfered in democratic elections in at least thirty countries.

When will the dropping of bombs on innocent civilians by the United States, and invading and occupying their country, without their country attacking or threatening the US, become completely discredited?

The United States is an equal-opportunity bomber. The only qualifications for a country to become a target are: (a) it poses an obstacle – could be anything – to a particular desire of the American Empire; (b) it is virtually defenseless against aerial attack; (c) it does not possess nuclear weapons.

A vast amount of "social reform" consists in just this operation. The consequence is that those who have gone astray, being relieved from Nature's fierce discipline, go on to worse, and that there is a constantly heavier burden for the others to bear. Who

They seem to think that interference is good if only they interfere. In