Jim Webb Quotes

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Either a war has to be fought, or it doesn't.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war.

There are two things that will always be difficult for a democratic people to do: to start a war and to finish it

There is no area where experience matters more than in war and diplomacy.

Is a military solution the only way to stop nations from doing bad things?

War is always an option. Peace is not.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

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.

Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations.

War is failure of diplomacy.

In matters of war, we undermine presidential credibility at our nation’s peril.

In order to keep the peace you’ve got to have the authorization to use force.

It is not every cause of war that should lead to war.

The most expensive peace is far less costly than the cheapest war.

War is but an instrument of international policy.

He had rather spend 100,000 pounds on Embassies to keep or procure peace with dishonor, than 100,000 pounds on an army that would have forced peace with honor.

Who wants to be a war President? I don’t. But this is what came our way.

We’re not going to need as many people to do peacekeeping as we needed to fight the war.

It’s damn easy to get into a war, but damned harder to extricate yourself once you get in.

There appears to be almost no way in which the deployment of military force ... could be brought rationally to bear upon the decision of any of the political, economic, emotional or philosophical issues by which men still remain divided.

Wars are ... often the product of the conflicting intentions of decent men who have lost the patience to negotiate.