Hillary Clinton Quotes

In war ... diplomacy is the handmaiden of the necessities of the War Office.

I would have fought in WW2, so I wasn't a pacifist in the broader sense. I prefer to be a pacifist, but I think there are exceptions and times to defend yourself or your country, but that war wasn't one of them.

I think the President ought to bring everybody that's in American uniform back because we're headed for war.

The war against Iraq is as disastrous as it is unnecessary; perhaps in terms of its wisdom, purpose and motives, the worst war in American history... Our military men and women...were not called to defend America but rather to attack Iraq. They were not called to die for, but rather to kill for, their country. What more unpatriotic thing could we have asked of our sons and daughters...?

There is no working middle course in wartime.

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.

It is not every cause of war that should lead to war.

Do the American people really want their President ... to have no other option than to go to war or do nothing?

It is better to make our enemy's country the theater of war than our own.

Deterrence is a strategy for combining two competing goals: Countering an enemy and avoiding war.

The military people don't like it; the government probably doesn't like it, but the people should know what they're sending their young people into when they permit their governments to declare war and engage in war.

Israel's security policy is determined by our needs. I strongly reject all the unfounded publicity suggesting that Israel is prevented from taking action because of international pressure.

Generically, wars in necessity are wars where, I think, the vital interest of the nation are at stake, in which there are no viable alternatives to the use of force.

Military action without politics is like a tree without a root.

The Executive should be able to repel and not to commence war.

War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.

It is madness for any country to build its policy with an eye to nuclear war.

Lightly armed nations can move toward war just as easily as those which are armed to the teeth, and they will do so if the usual causes of war are not removed.

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.

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

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

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.

I may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In our modern democracy the government needs not a unanimous but a general support for war before it orders our forces to fight.

People have a very political way of looking at war, and that's understandable.

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.