John McCain Quotes

War is failure of diplomacy.

In war ... diplomacy is the handmaiden of the necessities of the War Office.

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

For WAR, consisteth not in Battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to content by Battle is sufficiently known.... So the nature of War, consisteth not in actual fighting; but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary. All other time is PEACE.

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

Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.

If Scotland and America go to war, I'm afraid I've already sworn in.

We call upon all sides to stop hostilities and restart peace talks.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

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

We have lived a long time.... without war... We have had peace when all the world has been in arms... It is … a thing most horrible that we should engage ourself in war with another.... With our own venom... we will destroy ourself.

My home policy? I wage war. My foreign policy? I wage war. Always, everywhere, I wage war.

We have won an armistice on a single battleground, not peace in the world. We may not now relax our guard nor cease our quest.

In the face of war, politics are adjourned.

When you go to war it is highly unlikely that it will end with a neat, tidy conclusion.

This is not a peace. It is an armistice for 20 years.

America has wearied of Middle East War.

War is always an option. Peace is not.

I have lost count of how many wars I have actively and largely ineffectively tried to stop.

Resort to force in the Great War (I) failed to bring tranquillity. Victory and defeat alike were sterile. That lesson the world should have learned.

I will not vote to send my sons, or your sons, daughters, brothers, sisters or friends to fight for a stalemate.

It [military action on Iraq] makes me feel ashamed to come from the United States. It is humiliating.

It's true that the question of Iraq divided Europe.

We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.