Jay Winik Quotes

Either a war has to be fought, or it doesn't.

I think that war is diplomacy by other means, for sure, and there have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons. There are wars that have had to be fought, and there will probably continue to be.

Nations drift into wars.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

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

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

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

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

It’s damn easy to get into a war, but damned harder to extricate yourself once you get in.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

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.

If I took the 40 years of my dad talking to me about war and battles and taking me to battlefields and distilled it down into one question, it would probably be the idea of the necessary or unnecessary war.

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.

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.

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.

It's an important fact of life, war.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.

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

I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

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