Prince Otto von Bismarck-Schoenhausen Quotes

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

Woe to the statesman whose reason for entering a war do not appear so plausible at its end as at its beginning.

There is no issue of greater importance to the U.S. Senate than war and peace.

In order to manage such affairs as war and peace, treaties, alliances, marriage, the means of increasing one’s territories, the loyalty of the people, parties and other business of the kingdom, it seems to me that there is no more useful knowledge than the study of history.

Political considerations can be taken into account only as long as they do not make demands that are militarily improper or impossible.

Politically, foreign policy never matters until it matters, and then it matters a lot.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

What I've learned, and will try to remember from now on, is that defending your country's credibility is never sufficient reason to fight a war.

In these days of intimate relations, of economic stress and of intense desire to protect national interests and advance national opportunity, the treatment of questions which, from a legal standpoint, are domestic, often seriously affects international relations. The principle, each nation for itself to the full extent of its powers, is the principle of war, not of peace.

Our national aims can be realized only by military means. The matter needs no further elaboration or interpretation.

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

Sometimes heads of state have to make statements for [local] public consumption.

You have repeatedly asserted that you and the German people have no desire for war. If this is true there need be no war. Nothing can persuade the peoples of the earth that any governing power has any right or need to inflict the consequences of war on its own or any other people save in the cause of self-evident home defense.

War should never be thought of as something autonomous, but always as an instrument of policy.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.”

In politics, reality is that which is unseen. Politics is the art of combining a nation’s diverse or opposing factors to the benefit of its domestic well-being, and of saving the country from the open enmity or covetous friendship of other nations.

The Lesson is Plain: If You Want WAR, vote for HUGHES! If You Want Peace With Honor, VOTE FOR WILSON.

The war in Afghanistan is not of a peace with the rest of Obama's worldview. It's a holdover from the era that his election was supposed to bring to a close.

You have an administration which understands America's international responsibilities and interests, but you have a population which is anxious, tired, and doesn't want to bear any burden and pay any price. And that's very difficult for whoever becomes president.

Actually we're very lucky John McCain is not in charge because I think we would be in perpetual war.

I saw Donald [Trump] saying that there were some Iranian sailors on a ship in the waters off of Iran, and they were taunting American sailors who were on a nearby ship. He said, you know, if they taunted our sailors, I'd blow them out of the water and start another war. That's not good judgment.

The peace movement didn't stop the Iraq but I think that Blair would not be able to go along and support an Iranian war.

If, on our own account, we do not intend to wage war, we are much less willing to do so for interests which do not concern Germany and are alien to it.

I supported the Iraq resolution, but that was not an approval of war in Iraq and certainly was not approval for an occupation of Iraq.