Foster Rhea Dulles Quotes

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.

Sure we won the war, but the peace we’re losing badly.

The initial [Iraq] war was won in about 6 weeks, but the peace was lost soon thereafter.

Wars are seldom won as quickly as everyone expects, and almost always create far more problems than they solve

So long as there is imperialism in the world, a permanent peace is impossible.

We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.

Two great and terrible truths of war are these: War is easy to enter into, but difficult to end. And ultimately, in war there are no winners.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.

Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.

All the aftermath that so frequently follows in the wake of war still confront the nation, and we now, as ever before, must hold fast to the ancient landmarks and see to it that all of these plagues that threaten so mightily shall be rendered harmless.

This war [World War II] like the next war, is the war to end all wars.

To-day the Peace Treaty was ratified at Paris; the War is over. A terrible era begins for Europe, like the gathering of clouds before a storm, and it will end in an explosion probably more terrible than that of the World War. In Germany there are all the signs of a continuing growth of nationalism.

Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.

Americans have learned that it is harder to end wars than it is to begin them

Nations want the United States to fight their wars, until they go bad.

By the time the United States went to war with Afghanistan in the fall of 2001, I had made three trips to the country. I covered the fall of the Taliban in Kandahar and have been returning routinely for the past 14 years.

Many Europeans are concerned that stronger sanctions are a slippery slope toward war unless the U.S. is at the table.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.

We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war.

It is the conflicting interests of the man and the woman, the home and the shop, the Church and the State, which cause the economic struggle, the war and the strife with which mankind is cursed and which make all long and pray for the reign of peace.

I think when war becomes your life, I think it's very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.

When people say 'Lysistrata' has always been seen as an anti-war play, what's interesting is to not make it an anti-war play, because I actually think there are important times to go to war in this world. That's just the reality. But what's interesting is the not caring.

So a truthful assessment of how America is doing in the war on terror as a result of President Bush's war on Iraq is that we have been set back by decades.