Virginia Postrel Quotes

In case of war, a treaty would have to be made at the end of the war.

One war at a time.

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

I think that our weakness is understanding that when we go to war, we go to war to win.

You need to think, when you get involved in wars, how you're going to get out of them.

The final outcome of a war is often determined by the degree of initiative shown on each side.

No one starts a war—or rather, no one in his senses ought to do so—without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war, and how he intends to conduct it.

Right now, the choice isn't between war and peace. It is between war and endless war.

It's very easy to get into a war, but I don't know how you extricate from one.

War is no picnic. Wars should be prevented, and if you can't prevent them, you have to put them off.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

For some years I have spent my time on exactly these questions - both in thinking about ways to prevent war, and in thinking about how to fight, survive, and terminate a war, should it occur.

It is better for the Arab countries themselves to interfere out of their national, humanitarian, political and military duties and to do what is necessary to stop the bloodshed in Syria.

There are laws for peace as well as war.

I'm saying this as a Republican: In the White House, the effort that goes in and wherever these decisions are made, as to limit civilian casualties, is more probably than any in the history of the world, especially when you consider the history of warfare.

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

I think there has to be greater heed paid by the Security Council members to military advice.

We are running out of time. We need a strategy to win in Iraq or an exit strategy to leave.

It's not the job of the U.S. military to do nation-building or produce democratic utopias.

I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that.

War is a racket. It always has been... A few profit - and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can't end it by disarmament conferences. You can't eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can't wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war.

In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.

Actually I can't imagine Nato troops on the ground and I think it's also important to send that very clear message to the UN and other organisations right now so that appropriate plans can be in place in due time and the Gaddafi regime can collapse soon.

War is failure of diplomacy.

Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.