Ernst Lindemann Quotes

The great questions of the day are not to be decided by speeches and majorities ... but by iron and blood.

No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.

If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

An army is a nation; it is one of the vices of our age.

The first accounts we have of mankind are but so many accounts of their butcheries. All empires have been cemented in blood; and, in those early periods, when the race of mankind began first to form themselves into parties and combinations, the first effect of the combination, and indeed the end for which it seems purposely formed, and best calculated, was their mutual destruction.

My policy is victory.

War knows no law except that of might.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

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

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

History has been the history of warfare.

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

History is a bath of blood.

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.

War is an act of force to compel our enemy to do our will.

Too many policy decisions over the years have been made by men in closed rooms not thinking about the dead bodies. When bullets fly, people die. Pictures ram that message home.

Bloody Ground

Killing, and nothing else, is what the army is for, and the only thing it can properly build is killers and killees.

The end of war is to procure by force the justice which cannot otherwise be obtained.

I am too realistic to believe in pacifism. But, nevertheless, the use of force should always be the last resort.

Between the people and their enemies there can be nothing in common but the sword; we must govern by iron those who cannot be governed by justice; we must oppress the tyrant...