Michael McCaul Quotes

Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.

It's almost inevitable there's going to be an escalation on both sides.

The Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war.

Well, I asked him who would start the war first.

the world's chief war-monger

Great armaments lead inevitably to war.

If you aren't please tell me how you are going to not have a war.

He said that if we were going to have a war, they would never be the first ones to start it.

And, you see, we are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.

Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.

For a time during the early settlement of this country peace and goodwill prevailed, only to be followed later by violent and relentless warfare.

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.

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

The principal cause of war is war itself.

Nations make wars; states make wars; and cultures make wars. We tend to conflate the three, but they are very different wars.

The long war of words and writing ends in blows.

Armament firms have been active in fomenting war scares and in persuading their own countries to increase their armaments.

You may not like to go to war, but war will come to you.

War nourishes war.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.”

Nations drift into wars.

Send Iran a clear message that if we are assaulted, we will meet it and trump it.

A point has been reached where the peoples of the Americas must take cognizance of growing ill-will, of marked trends toward aggression, of increasing armaments, of shortening tempers--a situation which has in it many of the elements that lead to the tragedy of general war.... Peace is threatened by those who seek selfish power.

As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.