George Washington Quotes

War is the science of destruction.

War is an act of force to compel our enemy to do our will.

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

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

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

War therefore is an act of violence to compel our opponent to fulfill our will.

Everybody in Afghanistan ought to know we’re coming in and hells coming with us.

Only destruction of the enemy can be called victory.

War, war is still the cry, "War even to the knife.

Sometimes there is no substitute for military action.

You may not like to go to war, but war will come to you.

A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.

If we have to go to war, we will.

I like war.

How do I feel about war? Well anybody I guess, I hope, I don't like it.

War is not a thing one wants.

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.

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.

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

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

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.