Libya

Libya (Arabic: دولة ليبيا‎, romanized: Dawlat Lībiyā), is a country located in the region in North Africa, bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad to the south, Niger to the southwest, Algeria to the west, and Tunisia to the northwest.

Flag of Libya

People who have lived without oil for 5,000 years can live without it again —Muammar Gaddafi

Quotes

• Many as grains of Libyan sand
  Upon Cyrene’s spicy land.
  • Catullus 7, ll. 3–4, as translated by George Lamb (1821)

• People who have lived without oil for 5,000 years can live without it again for a few years in order to attain their legitimate rights.
  • Muammar Gaddafi, quoted in Martin Asser, "The Muammar Gaddafi Story", BBC News, Online

• This country had already been subjected to embargo and sanctions, furthermore it also suffered a direct military armed aggression during Reagan’s time. This country is Libya. Hence, to serving world peace … Friendship between our peoples … and for the sake of economic, and security cooperation against terror, you are in a position to keep NATO off the Libyan affair for good.
  • Muammar Gaddafi, quoted by Robert Mackey, "Text of New Qaddafi Letter to Obama", The Lede Blog — The New York Times (April 2011), Online

• Then warp my voyage on the southern gales,
  O’er the warm Lybian wave to spread my sails;
  That happy clime, where each revolving year
  The teeming ewes a triple offspring bear;
  And two fair crescents of translucent horn
  The brows of all their young increase adorn:
  The shepherd swains, with sure abundance blest,
  On the fat flock and rural dainties feast;
  Nor want of herbage makes the dairy fail,
  But every season fills the foaming pail.
  • Homer, Iliad, iv, 87, Menelaus, as translated by Pope, Broome and Fenton (1725)

• Libya should be left to Libyans within the African Union frame.
  • Muammar Gaddafi, quoted by Robert Mackey, "Text of New Qaddafi Letter to Obama", The Lede Blog — The New York Times (April 2011), Online

• A skull beneath a sand-hill and a viper coiled inside—
  And a red wind out of Libya roaring: "Run and Hide!"
  • Rudyard Kipling, "Jobson's Amen", st. 6, in A Diversity of Creatures (1917)

• Aggression has been committed, and the country's leadership, not only Muammar Gaddafi, has been killed... Everything will be even worse in Libya, because it has colossal deposits of resources, and everyone has rushed there to grab those riches.
  • Alexander Lukashenko, "Reaction upon the death of Muammar Gaddafi", Wire Update (3 November 2011), Online

• 'Twas the first taste of Roman blood, like wine,
  Awoke the Libyan lion in my veins.
  • John Nichol, Hannibal (1873), II, iii, Hannibal

• Let your Spaniard pine
  For distant loves; give me my Libyan,
  My tawny hero with the flashing eyes!
  • John Nichol, Hannibal (1873), III, x, 4th Girl

• The Libyan arrogance
  Grows with allowance, and disdains respect.
  • John Nichol, Hannibal (1873), V, ii, Malcus

• Probably failing to plan for, the day after, what I think was the right thing to do, in intervening in Libya.
  • Barack Obama, interviewed by Chris Wallace, on his "worst mistake" as U.S. President, "Exclusive: President Barack Obama", Fox News Sunday (23 January 2017), Online