Townsend Harris Quotes

If Scotland and America go to war, I'm afraid I've already sworn in.

We are muddled into war.

Killing is the payoff of war.

In our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon – no alternative

With 450,000 U.S. troops now in Vietnam, it is time that Congress decided whether or not to declare a state of war exists with North Vietnam

Haven’t we learned that when you go to war, the outcome is unpredictable.

Nations want the United States to fight their wars, until they go bad.

If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.

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

The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention.

The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other.

Malicious attacks on the Soviet Union produce a natural feeling of indignation.

Instead of a few hundreds of thousands of men meeting each other in war, millions would now meet, and modern weapons would multiply manifold the power of destruction.

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.

Nevertheless, China was unfortunately unable to understand Japan's real position, and it is greatly to be regretted that the Sino-Japanese War became one of long duration.

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

This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war.

This battle will decide who will rule Asia.

War is such a dangerous business that the mistakes that come from kindness are the worst.

War is no damn football game.

Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.

Wars begin where you will but they end where they will.

Nothing is lost with peace; all may be with war.

… splendid little war