Milton Friedman Quotes

Force undertaken as police action that turns into a real war is a distasteful shock to the politicians who expect that force can be used without injustice.

All government wars are unjust.

Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.

Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?

Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.

'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards of presidents, he is a decent man. But those standards aren't good enough. He's in a position either to kill or not to kill, and he's made the decision to kill.

The war in Iraq will end, our troops will come home, Bush will be impeached and he will be brought to justice.

In July of 2004, I came out strongly against the war with Iraq because it was going to destabilize the Middle East.

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.

Our reports about civilian casualties here, about the resistance of the Iraqi forces, are going back to the United States. It helps those who oppose the war when you challenge the policy to develop their arguments.

There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar.

I think I ought not apologize for my actions. I am at war with your country. I'm at war with them not for personal reasons but because they have murdered more than, so many children and they have oppressed my religion and they have oppressed people for no reason except that they say we believe in Allah.

Saddam Hussein is no more terrible than Bush. He’s no more terrible than Bush’s father. No more terrible than Clinton.

It is not possible to teach an entire generation to bomb and destroy others in an undeclared, unjustified war abroad without paying the price in the derangement of our own society.

I have always done my best to keep my young men quiet, but some will not listen, and since the fighting began I have not been able to keep them all at home.

You're bombing that little piss-ant country up there [Vietnam], and you think you can blow them up. You've been doing this all the time. It's a bunch of crap about wanting to negotiate.

The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place.

Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?

Bombing Syria will achieve nothing.

It doesn't take much insight to realize that wars have been getting worse every time - worse from the point of view of the civilian, more and more destructive, more and more total.

Iraq's invasion of Kuwait is a case of bad men doing wrong things for wicked reasons. This is the full-sized or standard purebred evil and is easily recognized even by moral neophytes. Other malignities-drugs in America, famine in Africa and everything in the Middle East-are more complex. When combating those evils people sometimes have trouble deciding whom to shoot.

During war we imprison the rights of man.