Scott Garrett Quotes

The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war.

Treat all skirmishes like wars.

We don't declare war any more, we declare national defense.

The preemptive use of force has always been part of international law.

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

Nations drift into wars.

The use of military force against a sovereign nation is an act of war. Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution explicitly grants Congress the sole power to declare war.

The world hates us, but the bottom line is we're gonna have to show the world why they hate us by bombing the hell out of some people that have been hurting us. That's all. That's the end of it.

If there is no direct threat why are we invading?

First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.

I have always thought that Israel, as an independent and sovereign nation, had a right to defend itself.

Russia has been entirely proportionate in its military response to Georgia's attack on Russian citizens and peacekeepers.

If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed.

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

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

NATO believes it can pick on a small nation and force us to surrender our independence. And that is where NATO miscalculated. You are not willing to sacrifice lives to achieve our surrender. But we are willing to die to defend our rights as an independent sovereign nation.

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

If we have reason to believe someone is preparing an attack against the U.S., has developed that capability, harbours those aspirations, then I think the U.S. is justified in dealing with that, if necessary, by military force.

No war is inevitable until it breaks out.

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

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

If you militarise a situation, you beg for an armed response.

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.

Stand your ground. Don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here!

No man could know whether war might not at any moment break out.