Walter Bagehot Quotes

Military campaigns are inseparable from politics.

The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention.

Uncle Sam’s Latest Greatest Shortest War

It is better to make our enemy's country the theater of war than our own.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

Whenever we get involved in a war, the White House seems to have 3 priorities: We cannot appear to be losing; we must appear to be winning; we must look like we know what we are doing.

Every aspect of war is political.

Nations drift into wars.

Israel must win every single war that it fights. Our enemies only have to win one war.

If you think I would have gone to war the way George Bush did, don't vote for me.

I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's kids into a war.

Humans are very aggressive and scrappy, and go to war at the drop of a hat. However, a standard land war is no longer going to work as it is no longer technically possible.

What I've learned, and will try to remember from now on, is that defending your country's credibility is never sufficient reason to fight a war.

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.

Among all the upheavals of war with al Qaeda, the surest indicator of the historic stakes is the ongoing rotation of top U.S. government managers - scores at a time - into a bunker deep underground and far from Washington.

War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.

We shouldn't have politicians micromanaging this war because it is complex and unconventional.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

I believe the military should be wary of diplomacy until war is declared; then the State Department should keep its nose out and let the military do whatever is necessary to win.

In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.

War is just one more big government program.

I thought that the administration needed bipartisan support, and I was for our commander-in-chief. Because I felt at that time it was the right thing do. If I knew then what I know now, I would have never voted for the war.

You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.