Niall Ferguson Quotes

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.

Sure we won the war, but the peace we’re losing badly.

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

Americans have learned that it is harder to end wars than it is to begin them

We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq 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 wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

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

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

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

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 are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.

What I've learned, and will try to remember from now on, is that defending your country's credibility is never sufficient reason to fight a war.

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

The Middle East is more angry than ever. I'm afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war was linked to the lack of preparation for afterwards and the chaos and suffering that continuous - so it won't go away will it?

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

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate.