Rahm Emanuel Quotes

Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

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

To make peace, it is necessary to know how to make war.

Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.

Der Krieg ist nichts als eine Fortsetzung des politischen Verkehrs mit Einmischung anderer Mittel. War is merely the continuation of policy with the admixture of other means.

If there is a war to be fought, we don’t consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not to fight.

When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.

For WAR, consisteth not in Battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to content by Battle is sufficiently known.... So the nature of War, consisteth not in actual fighting; but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary. All other time is 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.

As an infantry officer who served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay, I have led men in combat and trained them on tactics and strategy. The mission of the infantry is to 'close with, and destroy, the enemy.' Our job, in a direct way, is to fight and win wars.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

Wars are fought for political considerations. Military victory alone is never enough

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

If we must fight, then by God we will fight. And I hope they [the Croats and Bosnians] will not be so crazy as to fight against us. Because if we don’t know how to work well or to do business, at least we know how to fight well.

What would you do in my position? Would you drop the war where it is? Or would you prosecute it in the future with elder-stalk squirts charged with rose water? Would you deal lighter blows rather than heavier ones?.... I shall do all I can to save the government, which is my sworn duty as well as my personal inclination.

My policy is victory.

It's very easy to get into a war, but I don't know how you extricate from one.

If you use weapons of war to bring about peace, you're going to have more war and destruction.

There's going to be other wars. I'm sorry to tell you, there's going to be other wars. We will never surrender, but there will be other wars.

I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.

I have much to teach you. Come and learn the art of war from the one who invented it. (Takeshi)

We must conquer war or war will conquer us.