G. Gordon Liddy Quotes

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

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

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.

Wars are fought for political considerations. Military victory alone is never enough

Politics is the womb in which war develops.”

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.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years … and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in, and otherwise we have returned home … to live our own lives in peace. But there comes a time when soft power or talking with evil will not work where, unfortunately, hard power is the only thing that works.

It makes no difference who says that our objective is peace, even if he be the President of the United States. Our actions speak louder than words, and our actions in Asia today are the actions of warmaking.

War is always an option. Peace is not.

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

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

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

Two great and terrible truths of war are these: War is easy to enter into, but difficult to end. And ultimately, in war there are no winners.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to call it American self-interest.

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

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

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

Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare.