Lyman Abbott Quotes

All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

If you don't want war, then you had better be an advocate for diplomacy with muscle.

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

There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.

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

Whenever there is talk of peace, there is anger in the military- industrial- political complex.

Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.”

War may well be the worst way imaginable to create larger, more peaceful societies, but the depressing fact is that it is pretty much the only way.

War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.

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.

War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.

A broader reading of history shows that appeasement, no matter how it is labeled, never fulfills the hopes of the appeasers.

War is politics by other means.

It was an old lesson learned by governments: that war solves problems of control.

I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country.

But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.

Democracies are poor breeding grounds for terrorism and war.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war.

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

The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.