Gusty Spence - founder of the modern day paramiliatary UVF

Guns don't win wars; guns and bombs may kill a man but they cannot make him follow their lead, nor will they ever coerce an unyielding man to yield. Everyone, republican or otherwise, has his or her particular part to play. -- Bobby Sands IRA member and Hunger striker

All warring factions must put aside their weapons. Eventually Loyalist and Republican must sit down together for the good of the country. -- Gusty Spence founder of the modern day UVF

In a prison interview on 12 July 1977:

"We are living in the most socially and legalistically oppressive soicety
in the Western Hemisphere, the manifestations of which are strewn over that
society like scabs. The fears of Roman Catholics will not go away because a
bunch of bigoted Unionist politicians say so, and make no mistake about this
word 'Unionist', because we are Unionists, too, even though we could never
agree with those fascists who hold the reins of power. Do they realize that
the IRA was a natural manifestation of Cathlic fears just as the UVF and UDA
were born of Loyalist fear?............All warring factions must put aside
their weapons. Eventually Loyalist and Republican must sit down together
for the good of the country."

On the declaration of ceasefire by the Combined Loyalist Military Command,
13 October 1994:

"In all sincerity we offer to the loved ones of all innocent victims over
the past twenty-five years abject and true remorse.....Let us firmly resolve
to respect our differing views of freedom, culture, and aspiration, and
never again permit our political circumstances to degenrate into bloody
warfare."