Ariel Sharon Quotes

We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

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

War is failure of diplomacy.

It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out.

You should never take military intervention off the table. When you do so, you give an out to a rogue nation or rogue actors.

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

We cannot go on fighting a war for small hills.

Military intervention is to be considered when all else fails.

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

… the financial cost of a [military] strike isn’t a reason to acquiesce in mass murder in Syria.

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.

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

I will not vote to send my sons, or your sons, daughters, brothers, sisters or friends to fight for a stalemate.

What is more immoral than 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 am one who believes that we are, in fact, engaged in a worldwide war against terrorism. We must have the serenity to accept the fact that war is not going to go away if we ignore it.

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

It is vital that Iraq and the United States together send the clearest possible signal that those who commit acts of violence against American military forces and American civilians will not be rewarded with amnesty.

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

First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.

Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats.

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

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

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