Walter Millis Quotes

The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.

Wars cost money.

War, we are told, shapes character; it resolves the major questions of international politics, consolidates nations, and indeed, constitutes the principal factor in the progress of civilization through its successive stages.

I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

No nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

So long as war exists on earth there will be some danger that even the Nation which most ardently desires peace may be drawn into war.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

I say at this point, for different reasons, Bush and Hussein are both very threatening to world peace and to deny that is to be incredibly naive.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

We want peace and development in all 10 states of South Sudan - we don't want military backing.

First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.

The only foreign policy advice I heard from China was when they said to Sudan, 'Don't go back to war.' That's all they said. They didn't push anything else.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

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

It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to call it American self-interest.

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery.

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.

The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

War is just one more big government program.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.