Alan Moore Quotes

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

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

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

Two great and terrible truths of war are these: War is easy to enter into, but difficult to end. And ultimately, in war there are no winners.

Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile.

THIS WILL BE FINAL MESSAGE FROM SAIGON STATION…. IT HAS BEEN A LONG FLIGHT AND WE HAVE LOST…. THOSE WHO FAIL TO LEARN FROM HISTORY ARE FORCED TO REPEAT IT. LET US HOPE THAT WE WILL NOT HAVE ANOTHER VIETNAM EXPERIENCE AND THAT WE HAVE LEARNED A LESSON. SAIGON SIGNING OFF.

I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely.

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

We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.

Though no one wants war, Congress needed to give the President the authority he needs to protect America while encouraging the use of diplomacy and negotiations to try and arrive at a peaceful solution to this problem.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

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.

Presidents do not go into war lightly. It's a tremendous responsibility in making decisions, and I know Bush must deeply believe this is the only course.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.

While war is never anyone first choice, sometimes it is a necessary choice.

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

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

As a Korean War Veteran, I know too well the troubling nature of war. This is why I will always support a diplomatic answer before military intervention.

The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion.

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.'

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

As the war on terrorism spreads and prolongs, the fruits of ending the threat of terrorism around the world will be tempered with a whole new series of problems to be addressed and resolved.

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

War is failure of diplomacy.

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.