Allen West Quotes

If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.

Over the last 40 years, more U. S. ambassadors than generals have been killed in the line of duty. But unlike this country's military, the U. S. Foreign Service is maligned, undercut and underutilized.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

It's an important fact of life, war.

Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.

Even we schoolchildren know that ordinary diplomats don't drive around in unmarked cars carrying Glock pistols.

American diplomats want blood. They watched too many Westerns in their formative years.

You give us the mission, we can get ‘em. We’ll rout ’em out. When we’re through with them, they will have flies walking across their eyeballs.

Those who make war unjustly shall perish

If I am elected President I will immediately issue an ultimatum to the leaders in Chechnya. If they do not capitulate within 10 days, Chechen villages and the entire Chechnya will be covered with blue clouds of smoke from missiles and projectiles.

Our country is being bled daily in an effort to create a democracy in a place where it never existed.

The question in my mind then is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, / The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

Are we going to start a war, the end of which we cannot see?

Dying in a a war never stopped wars from happening.

America roused to a righteous anger has always been a force for good. States that have been supporting if not Osama bin Laden, people like him need to feel pain. If we flatten part of Damascus or Tehran or whatever it takes, that is part of the solution.

War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.

War represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences. From a strictly pragmatic standpoint, it is the most inefficient waste of lives and resources ever conceived.

The chance of war Is equal, and the slayer oft is slain.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.

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

In violence, we forget who we are.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.

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.