Rand Paul Quotes

What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?'

I think that war is diplomacy by other means, for sure, and there have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons. There are wars that have had to be fought, and there will probably continue to be.

I’m not opposed to all wars; just dumb wars.

I don’t oppose all wars. And I know that in this crowd today, there is no shortage of patriots. Or of patriotism. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

War is not merely a state of things under which ordinary principles of government and normal peaceful intercourse between peoples come to an end. It is a state of things created by the importation into national and international life of new factors altogether.

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.

We've made some mistakes in this country in times past - the Korean conflict proceeding that, some say proceeding the Persian Gulf War, where we were ambiguous as to what we would do.

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan.

The advance guard in the campaign for peace that America wages today must be the State Department.

Some in my party threaten to send a message that they don't know a just war when they see it, and more broadly that they're not prepared to use our military strength to protect our security and the cause of freedom.

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.

I didn't promote war when I was a weapons inspector.

Disarming Iraq is legal under a series of U.N. resolutions. Iraq is in flagrant violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous.

I'm not anti-war. I served in a war, and I served proudly. But just or not, necessary or not, war is the industrial-scale slaughter of other humans.

Police do not belong in war zones.

Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.

The security agencies are prosecuting the government’s war in Darfur.

If it must come to war, I argue that the world should respond through the United Nations. This is the best way to give legitimacy to the use of force in these circumstances.