Georges Clemenceau Quotes

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.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

There is no area where experience matters more than in war and diplomacy.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

All wars are mishandled.

Wars are fought for political considerations. Military victory alone is never enough

We cannot go on fighting a war for small hills.

Wars the United States starts do not necessarily end when and how it wants them to.

War is always an option. Peace is not.

Military action without political context is ineffective.

I've always been interested in the politics of war. War is one of those things that, the longer I studied it, the more illogical it seemed.

Der Krieg ist nichts als eine Fortsetzung des politischen Verkehrs mit Einmischung anderer Mittel. War is merely the continuation of policy with the admixture of other means.

If you think I would have gone to war the way George Bush did, don't vote for me.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

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.

We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

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.

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

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

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

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

The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

War is failure of diplomacy.