John McCain Quotes

One makes mistakes in every war.

Things don’t go well in war. You make mistakes.

Every war has its demons.

Fighting a war can cost more in blood and money than any other undertaking in which nations engage.

Mistakes happen in wars. Wars do not go well…. But we adjust.

The question in my mind then is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many.

Democracies are prone to war, and war consumes them.

Oftentimes, discussion of war gets flattened to a discussion of trauma.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate.

The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.

Waging an unnecessary war is a grave mistake.

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.

War is the greatest failure of mankind.

War is the father of all.

War isn't civilized. War is failure. It's the ultimate result of a breakdown in public policy, and soldiers are the machines that handle that breakdown. In warfare, you're taught to do whatever you have to, to stay alive.

All wars are mishandled.

We make mistakes in every war and serious mistakes were made here.

War is the ultimate realization of modern technology.

The truth is that one cannot choose the form of war one wants.

When we go to war we always make some wrong assumptions. The most common is that the war will be short.

War is a series of disasters which result in a winner.