George W. Bush Quotes

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

We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

And, you see, we are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.

We will not send troops. Germany is not committed to Iraq - we will not commit ourselves with troops.

The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.

Everything starts and finishes with the soldier.

First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.

We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire.

Join the Army, see the world, meet interesting people—and kill them.

No man could know whether war might not at any moment break out.

Our military is meant to fight and win war.

The mission of our military is to fight and win wars.

The possession of highly developed armed forces by small nations is disastrous in all its consequences.

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.

It makes no difference who says that our objective is peace, even if he be the President of the United States. Our actions speak louder than words, and our actions in Asia today are the actions of warmaking.

Every nation prepares, through its government, to equip itself with the power to hurl death upon its fellow-nations. No people seeks that power; it is governments that seek it.

Any state surrounded by enemies will seek strategic depth.

Any idea that you can have a league for security is nuts, and all people who favor it are potential murderers… as long as man is man, there will be war and the only way to avoid trouble is to have the best army and navy, which we now have.

If you seek peace, we do not want War. But if you want War, we will accept it unhesitatingly.

A Citizen's Handbook for War

We can’t always pick and choose which conflicts were going to get into.

I am persuaded that our liberties must be greatly hazarded, if not entirely lost, if their defense is left to any but a permanent standing army: I mean, one to exist during the war.

When it comes to China’s relationship with foreign countries, it is of course better to have peace. But before we can have real peace, China must be ready to fight. If we give in to every demand, then the more we seek peace, the less likely we are going to get it.

Iran is not interested in a war. Iran is capable of defending itself and teaching a very harsh lesson to anybody who commits aggression against Iran, but we're not interested.