Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

Victory must be assured in advance. And the American public must be all for it from the outset.

We are a nation at war - and we should act like it.

I used to have a little saying I used when people said, 'What are your priorities?' I'd give them a bit of government alphabet soup. I'd say 'CTCPROW: Counterterrorism, counterproliferation, rest of the world.'

You can’t take military action in war without the support of government.

For the remote contingency by which a national army must be always judged, namely, the contingency of war with a first class power, the Army is practically unprepared.

The Commonwealth of Venice in their armoury have this inscription, "Happy is that city which in time of peace thinks of war.

The military mind always imagines that the next war will be on the same lines as the last.

Whenever we get involved in a war, the White House seems to have 3 priorities: We cannot appear to be losing; we must appear to be winning; we must look like we know what we are doing.

In Washington the semantics of the military muted the reality of war for the civilian policy-makers. In quiet, air-conditioned, thick-carpeted rooms, such terms as 'systematic pressure,' 'armed reconnaissance,' 'targets of opportunity,' and even 'body count' seemed to breed a sort of games-theory detachment.

From birth, Pakistan was saddled with a huge army it could not pay for and plenty of monsters to destroy.

The President has full responsibility, which cannot be shared, for military decisions in a world in which the difference between safety and cataclysm can be a matter of hours or even minutes.

It is my desire that the airplane be produced in quantity so that it can be used in this war—not the next.

It's impossible to start making a weapon only when the war already started!

Now that you're Secretary of War, what kind of an army do you think we ought to have?

A people [America] that does not prepare to fight should then be morally prepared to surrender. To fail to prepare soldiers and citizens for limited, bloody ground action, and then to engage in it, is folly verging on the criminal.

It lies upon the people's shoulders to prepare for the war, but it lies upon the Israeli army to carry out the fight with the ultimate object of erecting the Israeli Empire.

We are the only nation in the world that waits till we get into a war before we start getting ready for it.

We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.

The crises in North Korea, Iran, the Middle East, show how quickly things can change and how they can go wrong. We must be prepared. And right now the Army is not.

Our troops are committed to bringing security to Iraq while its government matures. American forces will continue to accomplish their mission with caution, precision and honor with the thanks of a grateful nation.

By Rice's own standards, the war was well underway by the time he took office. He was a war president the moment he took the oath. But did he act like one?

The most important thing you need to know about the Pentagon is that it is not in charge of today's wars but rather tomorrow's wars.

Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.

I'm very confident that the solutions that we are developing are going to be effective not only in application in Iraq, but also will be very helpful for potential homeland security situations as well.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.