Jon Stewart Quotes

You have to decide in advance whether you're ready go to war. If you guys are ready to send a million troops into Ukraine and fight World War III, you're going to do it without my support because I think that's a really foolish notion.

I know of nothing more exciting than war.

I’ve been calling for more troops for over two years, along with John McCain and others subsequent to my saying that.

If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight.

You take it from me, we are losing the war because we can salute too well.

The harder the fighting and the longer the war, the more the infantry, and in fact all the arms, lean on the gunners.

If slaves will make good soldiers, then our whole theory of slavery is wrong.

The Imperial Service could win a war without coffee, but would prefer not to have to.

This war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything.

No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique.

I can stand out the war with any man.

No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique. If it is to your advantage, make a forward move; if not, stay where you are. Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content. But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.

We don't like to kill our unborn; we need them to grow up and fight our wars.

One very difficult decision was deciding to vote against the appropriations bill for the war. I had consistently said that I wanted to make sure our troops got the adequate and training in the war effort, despite the fact that I opposed the war at the point that the president decided to double down and send more troops. I had to vote against funding as a way of bringing it back to the table. That was a difficult decision for me.

You cannot stop me; I spend thirty thousand men a month.

So there are five ways of knowing who will win. Those who know when to fight and when not to fight are victorious. Those who discern when to use many or few troops are victorious. Those whose upper and lower ranks have the same desire are victorious.

The two-war strategy was a product of the cold war, when we had to have the ability to fight the Russians on the plains of Europe and fight the Chinese on the Korean peninsula at the same time. That costs an awful lot of money.

If our commanders on the ground say we need more troops, I will send them. But our commanders tell me they have the number of troops they need to do their job. Sending more Americans would undermine our strategy of encouraging Iraqis to take the lead in this fight. And sending more Americans would suggest that we intend to stay forever, when we are, in fact, working for the day when Iraq can defend itself and we can leave.

Councils of War never fight.

Soldier or sailor, the fighting man is but a fiend; and the staff and body-guard of the Devil musters many a baton.

The men in Vietnam weren't allowed to fight the war with any kind of concern to win by the government. It was like a war of attrition.

War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale.

Men who fight wars in winter don't live till spring.

I think I have great knowledge of - for military, and I think I have better vision for Syria than a lot of the so-called great military geniuses that are saying how to fight the war with Syria. In my opinion, they're doing just the opposite. Are we going to start World War III over Syria? Are we going to be there for the next 40 years?

Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.