Grantland Rice Quotes

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, / The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.

I think that war is diplomacy by other means, for sure, and there have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons. There are wars that have had to be fought, and there will probably continue to be.

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

We have lived a long time.... without war... We have had peace when all the world has been in arms... It is … a thing most horrible that we should engage ourself in war with another.... With our own venom... we will destroy ourself.

When we walk everyday on the razor-edge of danger, a peace-loving people do not want a trigger-happy President in the White House.

I could have been very popular if I had launched a military attack on Iran but I chose patience.

In the face of war, politics are adjourned.

It is from the pride and ambition of rulers and the ignorance of the people that wars arise.

That's what wars are: Poor people killing other poor people.

If I am elected President I will immediately issue an ultimatum to the leaders in Chechnya. If they do not capitulate within 10 days, Chechen villages and the entire Chechnya will be covered with blue clouds of smoke from missiles and projectiles.

Democracies are prone to war, and war consumes them.

War is the father of all.

If there is going to be a war – and no one can say that there is not – we must keep him fresh to be our war Prime Minister

Are we going to start a war, the end of which we cannot see?

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

War is the continuation of politics." In this sense war is politics and war itself is political action.... It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.