William H. Seward Quotes

Politics is the womb in which war develops.”

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq.

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

It will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I have dubbed 'the integral accident' that is the continuation of politics by other means.

Whenever there is talk of peace, there is anger in the military- industrial- political complex.

Our country is being bled daily in an effort to create a democracy in a place where it never existed.

Every aspect of war is political.

In wars, serious mistakes are made.

Nations drift into wars.

If this phrase of “the balance of power” is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting …

A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.

I'm not that worried about war. Insecurity is the word I would use - insecurity and tension and conflict. I thought civilized people had abandoned wars. Sometimes people don't make rational decisions.

I've always been interested in the politics of war. War is one of those things that, the longer I studied it, the more illogical it seemed.

I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country.

I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.

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.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.

The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger, or in risking your life for a cause anchored in some distant political arena.

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.