Fritz Sauckel Quotes

Well, I asked him who would start the war first.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

Almost certainly there will be vicious wars between the states.

If Japan had been near to either England or France, war would have broken out long ago.

He said that if we were going to have a war, they would never be the first ones to start it.

No war is inevitable until it breaks out.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

I’m not opposed to all wars; just dumb wars.

We ought to nuke North Korea right about now just to give the world a warning.

We’re not declaring war. We haven’t declared war since the Second World War. We’re going to war.

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

induce me to aid them in their unholy and execrable design of manufacturing a war with Mexico.

The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war.

No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies.

One hour ago, President Johnson informed me that Egyptian forces are preparing an attack on Israeli positions and that this attack is to be launched. If such a thing happens, then the United States will consider itself freed from the commitments it gave to the USSR to exercise restraint.

Are we going to start a war, the end of which we cannot see?

So long as war exists on earth there will be some danger that even the Nation which most ardently desires peace may be drawn into war.

He was afraid of war [with America]. Stain never did anything to provoke a war with the United States. He knew his weakness

Mobilization is not aggression.… The aggressor is the one who renders inevitable the first shot, in other words the nation who first declares war.

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

The United States will never take part in an aggressive war.

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

Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.

Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.