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My duty to the army and to the republic whose battles we were waging forbade me assuming a position of seeming hostility to any portion of the brave men under my command.

For heaven's sake, when you see the enemy attacking, you pick up the pitchfork, and you enlist everybody you see. You don't stand around arguing about who's responsible, or who's going to pay.

When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack.

Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.

Any time you have a situation in which you are calling for more time rather than calling for Iraq to immediately comply, it plays into the hands of Saddam Hussein.

You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

Any confrontation, such as a verbal one with the United States, would be harmful for everybody.

I am a Bedouin warrior who brought glory to Libya and will die a martyr.

I don't want to force the peacekeeping nations to feel like I'm pushing them out.

I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.