Dan Quayle Quotes

Our national aims can be realized only by military means. The matter needs no further elaboration or interpretation.

shane: so is world war fifteen over out there? claire:i think so

We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.

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

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

I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late.

In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

Candidates for president are always leery of war, but presidents are also Commanders in Chief and have a different perspective…. Presidents are more martial and candidates more peace-loving.

Any idea that you can have a league for security is nuts, and all people who favor it are potential murderers… as long as man is man, there will be war and the only way to avoid trouble is to have the best army and navy, which we now have.

Wars the United States starts do not necessarily end when and how it wants them to.

America remains the indispensable nation. There are times when America, and only America, can make a difference between war and peace, between freedom and repression.

My policy is victory.

There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history's clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier war. It points to no single instance where this end has justified that means, where appeasement has led to more than a sham peace. Like blackmail, it lays the basis for new and successively greater demands until, as in blackmail, violence becomes the only other alternative.

Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the next one.

Everything depends on the Americans. If they want to make war for 20 years then we shall make war for 20 years. If they want to make peace, we shall make peace and invite them to tea afterwards.

Bonaparte's wish is Peace, nay that he is afraid of war to the last degree.

War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.

When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.

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.

Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.

The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.

Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.

Der Krieg ist nichts als eine Fortsetzung des politischen Verkehrs mit Einmischung anderer Mittel. War is merely the continuation of policy with the admixture of other means.