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The death penalty is what you would call an oxymoron. Death is not a penalty; it's an escape. They treat me like a trophy, like they got me, they’re gonna kill me, and they won. They didn't win. In the crudest terms, 168 to 1.

— Timothy McVeigh Interview for American Terrorist (2001)

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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)

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.

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)

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