Wayne L. Morse Quotes

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually, genuinely desiring peace.

I'm really interested in how conflicts arise and how they reach points of no return. I'm no pacifist. Sometimes force is necessary. But war is a choice.

So long as war exists on earth there will be some danger that even the Nation which most ardently desires peace may be drawn into war.

War is always an option. Peace is not.

I will always fight for peace. But, unfortunately, it is war that drives us forward. It is war that makes the major turns. It makes Wall Street function; it makes all the bastards in the Balkans function.

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

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

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.

Either a war has to be fought, or it doesn't.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out.

Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.

A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea.

War is the most serious of the complicated relationships of humankind.

We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years … and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in, and otherwise we have returned home … to live our own lives in peace. But there comes a time when soft power or talking with evil will not work where, unfortunately, hard power is the only thing that works.

Let the natural process of war among nations smother the weak.

It’s damn easy to get into a war, but damned harder to extricate yourself once you get in.

What I have learned about Afghanistan is that force carries more weight than anything else.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.”

I, very early thought it would be best to effect a peace through the medium of war.