Bill O'Reilly Quotes

Some day, one state will take up arms against another

I believe demolishing Hussein's military power and liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk.

How can you lay siege to a whole country? Who is really under siege now? Baghdad cannot be besieged.

Oh, go in anywhere Colonel, go in anywhere. You'll find lovely fighting all along the line.

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

War is the science of destruction.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.

If there is no direct threat why are we invading?

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

The Israeli military believes it has destroyed all of Hamas's tunnels, or at least all the ones it knew about.

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

Well, I think it's too early to call Fallujah a failure.

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.

From warriors ravens grew red And with their leader a host attacked.

It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.

As Governor of my country, I have been an enemy to its enemies; I have slain the English; I have mortally opposed the English King; I have stormed and taken the towns and castles which he unjustly claimed as his own.

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 has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

History has been the history of warfare.

War is a form of really bad manners, in a strange way. Invading a country I think is just the worst possible manners. 'You're not invited!' Gate crashing on a large scale!

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

War is an abstraction.

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.