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Quotes About Unprovoked

I don't believe America will justifiably make an unprovoked attack on another nation. It would not be consistent with what we have been as a nation or what we should be as a nation.
~ Dick Armey
seems completely unwarranted.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I assure you I'm quite harmless," he said. "Unless prodded, provoked, or otherwise perturbed." + + +
~ Sam Torode
How could you get mad at someone who neither needed to attack nor was at all worried about being able to defend? It was like getting mad at Switzerland.
~ Karl Marlantes
Americans have no idea of the extent of their government's mischief... the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
~ Gore Vidal
This was uncalled for.
~ Dave Eggers
on December 20, 1989, the United States attacked Panama with what was reported to be the largest airborne assault on a city since World War II.6 It was an unprovoked attack on a civilian population. Panama and her people posed absolutely no threat to the United States or to any other country. Politicians, governments, and press around the world denounced the unilateral U.S. action as a clear violation of international law.
~ John Perkins