William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

Is a military solution the only way to stop nations from doing bad things?

Military action without political context is ineffective.

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.

We all say no to war, we are all for justice and peace. But sometimes in order to maintain peace, armed action is necessary. But we hope it won't be the case.

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan.

We try very quickly to show that we are not at war with the Iraqi people. We're trying to deal with the people who are indeed themselves at war with the Iraqi people.

I'm really interested in how conflicts arise and how they reach points of no return. I'm no pacifist. Sometimes force is necessary. But war is a choice.

I didn't promote war when I was a weapons inspector.

The possibility of the United States winning the war and losing the peace is real and serious

We’re not going to need as many people to do peacekeeping as we needed to fight the war.

One war at a time.

War should never be thought of as something autonomous, but always as an instrument of policy.

If you use weapons of war to bring about peace, you're going to have more war and destruction.

But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.

I think when war becomes your life, I think it's very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.

We've made some mistakes in this country in times past - the Korean conflict proceeding that, some say proceeding the Persian Gulf War, where we were ambiguous as to what we would do.

I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

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.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

If Iraq and Afghanistan have taught us anything in recent history, it is the unpredictability of war and that these things are easier to get into than to get out of, and, frankly, the facile way in which too many people talk about, 'Well, let's just go attack them.'

Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.

I've been arguing this for months. This is not our war. This is not a war we should be in. Australia's better spending its time negotiating with North Korea.