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If there is a hell, then I'll be in good company with a lot of fighter pilots who also had to bomb innocents to win the war.

— Timothy McVeigh

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I am sorry these people had to lose their lives. But that's the nature of the beast. It's understood going in what the human toll will be.

ATF, all you tyrannical people will swing in the wind one day for your treasonous actions against the Constitution of the United States. Remember the Nuremberg War Trials.

Timothy McVeigh & Terry Nichols: Oklahoma Bombing (2010)

Should any other person or governing body be able to tell another person that he/she cannot save their own life, because it would be a violation of a law?

Letter to John J. LaFalce (1992)

I like the phrase "shot heard 'round the world," and I don't think there's any doubt the Oklahoma City blast was heard around the world.

Interview for American Terrorist (2001)

Being face to face with these people, you realize, they're just people like you.

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Only the dead have seen the end of war.

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