Georges Jacques Danton Quotes

No war is inevitable until it breaks out.

We’re not declaring war. We haven’t declared war since the Second World War. We’re going to war.

When one nation is agreed in the policy of fighting another, any pretext will answer.

We are at war and these people are our enemies.

That was a declaration of war

We declared war on an enemy that had declared war on us many years earlier.

Mobilization is not aggression.… The aggressor is the one who renders inevitable the first shot, in other words the nation who first declares war.

When the state does go to war ... so too should the nation.

If we have to go to war, we will.

My sentence is for open war.

Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.

We convinced him quickly that the possibility of war was absolutely nil and continued our festivity. On the next day we were ordered to take the field.

But it cannot follow that because weapons and troops are now being deployed we are bound to go to war.

The word was enough. It ran like fire along the line, from man to man, and rose into a shout, with which they sprang forward upon the enemy, now not 30 yards away.

We don't consider the battle has ended in Afghanistan... The battle has begun and its fires are picking up. These fires will reach the White House, because it is the center of injustice and tyranny.

I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments.

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

Well, I asked him who would start the war first.

War is being declared tomorrow here so perhaps you can understand that I have been working under difficulties, but difficulties negligible compared with what others have to go through.

I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition.

When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.

If you militarise a situation, you beg for an armed response.

We shall certainly not drift into war, but go to war if we do, because we intend it and have a purpose we mean to accomplish.

induce me to aid them in their unholy and execrable design of manufacturing a war with Mexico.

We don't declare war any more, we declare national defense.