Hillary Clinton Quotes

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.

It is inconceivable that even the gang who runs Russia would be willing to take on war, but one always has to remember that there seemed to be no reason in 1939 for Hitler to start war, and yet he did, and he started it with a world practically unprepared.

If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed.

Intelligence we gathered at the time indicated that this was in fact leadership and we struck the leadership.

All wars are planned by old men in council rooms apart.

If you militarise a situation, you beg for an armed response.

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

When we walk everyday on the razor-edge of danger, a peace-loving people do not want a trigger-happy President in the White House.

I don’t care what the international lawyers say, we are going to kick some ass.

If we think it necessary to wage war, we shall do so with or without your consent.

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

There is no passion to which the rulers of a people can address themselves with greater [political] effect [than war.]

The evils of war must fall upon the people, and with them the war-feeling should originate. We, their representatives, are but a mirror to reflect the light, and never should become a torch to fire the pile.

It's not hard to imagine Donald Trump leading us into a war just because somebody got under his very thin skin.

The target of preventive war must have several characteristics. It must be virtually defenceless; it must be important enough to be worth the trouble; it must be possible to portray it as the ultimate evil and an imminent threat to our survival.

I would not want to be a leader of a country that had launched ICBMs against the United States.

We will continue to hit those who threaten us.

War is the only destination to which Washington can lead.

My sentence is for open war.

We come here with no peaceful intent, but ready for battle, determined to avenge our wrongs and set our country free.

The only good enemy is a dead enemy.

If we are willing to act violently in pursuit of a peripheral interest, everyone can be certain that, when a vital interest is at stake, we will be still more violent. 'Credibility' is defined as the willingness to kill a lot of people now for a not very good cause to assure the world that we'll kill a lot more people if we can find a better one.

"What war?" said the Prime Minister sharply. "No one has said anything to me about a war. I really think I should have been told. I'll be damned," he said defiantly, "if they shall have a war without consulting me. What's a cabinet for, if there's not more mutual confidence than that? What do they want a war for anyway?"

They are most welcome. We will butcher them.

war is, in some not yet entirely defined sense, a self-replicating pattern of behavior, possessed of a dynamism not unlike that of living things.