Vo Nguyen Giap Quotes

Armed conflict between nations is a nightmare to me; but if I were convinced that any nation had made up its mind to dominate the world by fear of its force, I should feel that it must be resisted.

The U.S and England are not worthy of security council membership. Those who want good relations with the Iranian people should bow and surrender to its right and might.

I don’t care what the international lawyers say, we are going to kick some ass.

War is the supreme form of prestige.

Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington.

The U.S. must differentiate between controversial assertions of power, like those in the South China Sea, and fair reflections of China's growing contribution to the world, such as the new banks.

American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region.

The international community unfortunately did take sides in Libya, and we would never allow the Security Council to authorise anything similar to what happened in Libya.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

President Obama's consistent agenda has been to weaken the United States and our allies in pursuit of a more 'balanced' global power structure.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.

If the United States leads a multinational force into Iraq without United Nations backing, Canada should fight beside its neighbour. We've gone from being a middle power to a muddle power on this one.

The Arab world is not in a compromising mood. It's likely that your plan is rational and logical, but the fate of nations is not decided by rational logic. Nations never concede; they fight. You won't get anything by peaceful means or compromise. You can, perhaps, get something, but only by the force of your arms. We shall try to defeat you. I am not sure we'll succeed, but we'll try. We were able to drive out the Crusaders, but on the other hand we lost Spain and Persia. It may be that we shall lose Palestine. But it's too late to talk of peaceful solutions.

Force in today's world, just as in the past, is what determines rights.

Those who say that America has to dominate the world, and that you either have to control everything or go home, don't understand the way power is projected.

Do we really want a world in which every country feels entitled to attack any other that might someday threaten it?

World politics is not a kindergarten.

Very near the heart of all foreign affairs is the relationship between policy and military power.

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

Multilateralism may be little more than a polite way of camouflaging what is in practice unilateralism with allies.

There’s no reason to respect anyone’s word in that part of the world. The only thing they respect is force and the threat of force.

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