“Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.”
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“The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten.”
“Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.”
“What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.”
“The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.”
“I think there should be holy war against yoga classes.”
“For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.”
“People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.”
“The fight, this war, this fight against the remnants of terrorism will go on for some time.”
“I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And the way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command.”
“But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth, is that the war on terror is not in the Afghan villages or homes. Its in the sanctuaries, it is in the training grounds, its in the motivation factors and the money that comes to it.”
“Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.”
“You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas.”
“My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform.”
“I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.”
“It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.”
“Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war.”
“We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.”
“Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.”
“I consider Bush's decision to call for a war against terrorism a serious mistake. He is elevating these criminals to the status of war enemies, and one cannot lead a war against a network if the term war is to retain any definite meaning.”
“In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.”
“In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is almost impossible for a state to resort to war without violating one or more solemn treaty obligations.”
“To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism.”
“In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.”