Scott McClellan Quotes

In wars, serious mistakes are made.

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

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

First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.

Nations make wars; states make wars; and cultures make wars. We tend to conflate the three, but they are very different wars.

We have lived a long time.... without war... We have had peace when all the world has been in arms... It is … a thing most horrible that we should engage ourself in war with another.... With our own venom... we will destroy ourself.

My home policy? I wage war. My foreign policy? I wage war. Always, everywhere, I wage war.

War is always a very blunt instrument and almost always produces uncertain results.

Almost certainly there will be vicious wars between the states.

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

War is the science of destruction.

I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

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

People have a very political way of looking at war, and that's understandable.

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

War is the trade of Kings.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

The decision, therefore, lies here in the East; here must the Russian enemy, this people numbering two hundred million Russians, be destroyed on the battle field and person by person, and made to bleed to death .

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.

War's a profanity because, let's face it, you've got two opposing sides trying to settle their differences by killing as many of each other as they can.

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