Rush Limbaugh Quotes

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

Policy is not made with papers or ceremonies. Policy is made with iron and blood.

After all, it is not nice going to war with one’s equal or possible superior in strength – so different from those delightful “military operations” which consist in “potting”, savages with an amount of danger just sufficient to give a zest to the sport …But then the special line the skill of our ablest and most valiant generals takes is that of “thrashing a cannibal.” Thrashing a Cossack is a different sort of thing.

The last time I saw you Gooks was when you were shooting at me.

To make peace, it is necessary to know how to make war.

Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.

What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.

Barack Obama has done more than anyone else to promote the dangerous illusion that we can choose whether to have a war or not. But our enemies have already made that choice. Retired Marine Corps General James Mattis said: “No war is over until the enemy says it's over. We may think it's over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote“.

War is merely a continuation of politics.

War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.

War is always a struggle in which each contender tries to annihilate the other. Besides using force, they will have recourse to all possible tricks and stratagems to achieve the goal.

Against naked force the only possible defense is naked force. The aggressor makes the rules for such a war; the defenders have no alternative but matching destruction with more destruction, slaughter with greater slaughter.

Then, Sir, we will give them the bayonet!

We shall kill. If you have not killed at least one German a day, you have wasted that day... Do not count days; do not count miles. Count only the number of Germans you have killed.

War is the science of destruction.

The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

History has been the history of warfare.

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.