War Quotes

We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.

The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can replace it.

We can't let somebody rise to the top who will pardon these war criminals. Because they need to go to prison for what they've done in this world. We can't have a pardon. They need to pay for what they've done.

The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.

I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.

Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.

I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war.

And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.

In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself.

The ongoing strife in Iraq, and the billions of dollars that the President is seeking to continue that war, give me little comfort that this Administration has learned from its mistakes in Iraq.

Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.

World War II... did not happen to everyone, but it happened to most. There were people from Germany who were throwing bombs at us.

War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum.

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

But it cannot follow that because weapons and troops are now being deployed we are bound to go to war.

The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war.

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.

As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.

My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important and glamorous subject. A lot of us felt that if we couldn't get into science, we might try engineering or medicine.

I believe the American people spoke loud and clear to the Bush Administration in yesterday's election that they disapprove of the current direction in the war in Iraq. As a result, the President wasted no time in dumping Secretary Rumsfeld.

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

One can go to war alone, butyou can't build peace alone.

Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes.

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate the Constitution, we shall have a fugitive slave law in operation whenever the war is over.

Each one of these treaties is a step for the maintenance of peace, an additional guarantee against war. It is through such machinery that the disputes between nations will be settled and war prevented.