invasion quotes

   You are ordered abroad as a soldier of the King to help our French comrades against the invasion of a common enemy† In this new experience you may find temptations both in wine and women.You must entirely resist both temptations, and while treating all women with perfect courtesy, you should avoid any intimacy.Do your duty bravely. Fear God. Honour the King.

- 1st Earl Herbert
  Message to the soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force, reported in The Times,19  Aug.

This is not an invasion of  Vietnam.

- Richard M(ilhous) Nixon
   Television address to the nation announcing the invasion of Cambodia, 30  Apr.

England's chief defence depends upon the navy being always ready to defend the realm against invasion.

-Philip II
c.1555  Submission to the Privy Council while King-Consort of England.

The government may tomorrow withdraw every one of their troopsfrom Ireland.Ireland will be defended by her armed sons from foreign invasion, and for that purpose the armed Catholics in the south will be only too glad to join arms with the armed Protestant Ulsterman. Is it too muchtohope that out of thissituation a result mayspring that will be good not merely for the Empire but for the future welfare and integrity of the Irish nation?

-John Edward Redmond
  Speech, House of Commons, 3 Aug.