Pretext Quotes

We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq. There`s just one problem - it`s in North Korea.

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.

National defense is the usual pretext for the policy of fleecing the people.

If this phrase of the `balance of power` is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.

In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought.

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

If you don`t expand the freedom of the citizens, you`ll find yourself in a country which quite comfortably, under the pretext of apathy, will not defend democracy.