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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

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Just as invasion is the true and tried weapon in the hands of capital against the class struggle, so on the other hand the fearless pursuit of the class struggle has always proven the most effective preventative of foreign invasions. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

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It can feel like an invasion of privacy, involving an employer in a personal matter. ↗

— Frank Murphy

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The Germanic invasions in the West could not and did not in any way alter this state of affairs. ↗

— Henri Pirenne

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I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents. ↗

— Vaclav Klaus

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There is a mass of immigrants, a million of them without work. We will stop this invasion. ↗

— Antonis Samaras

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But compared to writing a novel, where you can be God, I did the Bay of Pigs invasion in six pages once, and there were 50,000 guys with boots that I didn't have to pay, and all those extras; we didn't have to pay them. ↗

— John Sayles

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