Jesse Ventura Quotes

One makes mistakes in every war.

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

To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.

In wars, serious mistakes are made.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

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.

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

I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

War is the greatest failure of mankind.

War is the most serious of the complicated relationships of humankind.

Generals make plans. Plans go wrong. And soldiers die.

All wars are tragedies, but not all wars are sins.

From the earliest dawnings of policy to this day, the invention of men has been sharpening and improving the mystery of murder, from the first rude essays of clubs and stones, to the present perfection of gunnery, cannoneering, bombarding, mining, and all those species of artificial, learned, and refined cruelty, in which we are now so expert, and which make a principal part of what politicians have taught us to believe is our principal glory.

Anybody who has experienced war will never want to do it again unless they have to. But if we’re going to do it, we have to be damn good at it.

The truth is that one cannot choose the form of war one wants.

War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.

We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.

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.

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.

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

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

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means 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.