Max Cleland Quotes

We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.

Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.

In the face of war, politics are adjourned.

That was a declaration of war

Some places seem to have a civil war habit.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.

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 was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?

When Ukrainians kill Ukrainians, I believe this is as close to a civil war as you can get.

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

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

We are losing each day an average 50 to 60 people throughout the country, if not more. If this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is.

You cannot avoid war in life, you cannot avoid the fear of terrorism, you cannot avoid those things now, they are a part of everyday demeanor.

It will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I have dubbed 'the integral accident' that is the continuation of politics by other means.

I have lately returned from Harpers Ferry, to which place I was suddenly called, on the 17th instant, by causes the most disturbing and destructive to the peace and safety of this State.

War would not only present the most effectual means of destroying [the Union] but would banish all hope of its peaceable reconstruction.

There will be plenty of fighting in the coming years and in a magnitude far beyond this. Prepare yourself.

Head for jihad and have your guns ready.

Coups are chaotic.

Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war.

We are readying ourselves to enter a long tunnel full of blood and darkness.

War is the continuation of politics." In this sense war is politics and war itself is political action.... It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

"What war?" said the Prime Minister sharply. "No one has said anything to me about a war. I really think I should have been told. I'll be damned," he said defiantly, "if they shall have a war without consulting me. What's a cabinet for, if there's not more mutual confidence than that? What do they want a war for anyway?"