Michael Beschloss Quotes

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

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.

The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.

War is failure of diplomacy.

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

Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation. Bella suscipienda sunt ob eam causam, ut sine injuria in pace vivatur.

The most expensive peace is far less costly than the cheapest war.

War is but an instrument of international policy.

We talk a great deal about war and do nothing.

Could we have avoided this terrible, bloody war! … Is it ever to end!

America has wearied of Middle East War.

I think when war becomes your life, I think it's very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.

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

We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Either a war has to be fought, or it doesn't.

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

We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan.

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.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

I still think it would be a great mistake to go into a war without support of our friends and allies.

I'm really interested in how conflicts arise and how they reach points of no return. I'm no pacifist. Sometimes force is necessary. But war is a choice.

As a Korean War Veteran, I know too well the troubling nature of war. This is why I will always support a diplomatic answer before military intervention.

I think that war is diplomacy by other means, for sure, and there have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons. There are wars that have had to be fought, and there will probably continue to be.