Aleksandr Lebed Quotes

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.

We've made some mistakes in this country in times past - the Korean conflict proceeding that, some say proceeding the Persian Gulf War, where we were ambiguous as to what we would do.

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke.

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

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

I don't think we would have had to be an occupying power if we had done the right thing in 1991.

Law stands mute in the midst of arms

As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.

Let the natural process of war among nations smother the weak.

Every aspect of war is political.

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

Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually, genuinely desiring peace.

I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!

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

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

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.

It is vital that Iraq and the United States together send the clearest possible signal that those who commit acts of violence against American military forces and American civilians will not be rewarded with amnesty.

I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

The people are forbidden to give aid and comfort to rebels. What of a government that has the power to cut off from aid and comfort all the rebels of the South and fails to exercise it?

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

Before and during the first phase of the war his administration repeatedly maligned the UN but now, that Iraq has turned into a quagmire, it is asking the UN for help.

First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.

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.