Ronald Reagan Quotes

To be deeply committed to negotiations, to be opposed to a particular war or military action, is not only considered unpatriotic, it also casts serious doubt on one's manhood.

The only way to save our empires from the encroaching of the people is to engage in war, and thus substitute national passions for social aspirations.

Wherever there's injustice, oppression, and suffering, America will show up six months late and bomb the country next to where it's happening.

When the state does go to war ... so too should the nation.

I'm not sure Americans are hesitant to do this again - to fight another war, because it looked to them like a courageous and terrific endeavor.

With the situation now, people might be intrigued to see how a country coped with war all those years ago.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.

Often, the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land, food or fuel, but rather perceptions - like fear, honor and perceived self-interest.

It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war.

The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.

He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

And, if we lost, then who win? Did Al Qaida win? When on the floor of the House of Representatives they cheer - they cheer - when they pass a withdrawal motion that is a certain date for surrender, what were they cheering? Surrender? Defeat?

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.

I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they will sit back hoping for peace if any nation uses force or the threat of force to acquire dominion over other peoples and other governments.

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.

As Governor of my country, I have been an enemy to its enemies; I have slain the English; I have mortally opposed the English King; I have stormed and taken the towns and castles which he unjustly claimed as his own.

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.

War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.

A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea. I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.

War is fear cloaked in courage.

Foreign policy can be the undoing of absolute rulers, tempted to foreign adventure in order to compensate for failure at home or spurred on by domestic adulation.