Michael T. Flynn Quotes

You may not like to go to war, but war will come to you.

Usually when a lot of men get together, it's called a war.

For WAR, consisteth not in Battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to content by Battle is sufficiently known.... So the nature of War, consisteth not in actual fighting; but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary. All other time is PEACE.

War is the science of destruction.

I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

History has been the history of warfare.

First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.

We are at war and these people are our enemies.

War, war is still the cry, "War even to the knife.

Every war is different. It's of its own kind.

Wars ruin armies.

This Republic and Japan are approaching that point of contact which is war.

We are conditioned to regard warfare as something exciting and even glamorous.

War is war. Vietnam is no different from the Crusades.

Fighting is worldwide. Fighting is fighting, everyone understands what it is.

I have need of Rigaud. He is violent. I want him for carrying on war; and that war is necessary to me.

If we have to go to war, we will.

My sentence is for open war.

Whenever armed forces . . . are used, the idea of combat must be present. . . . The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time.

No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.

I personally didn't see personal atrocities in the sense I saw somebody cut a head off or something like that. However, I did take part in free-fire zones, I did take part in harassment and interdiction fire, I did take part in search-and-destroy missions.

As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.

Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent.

Oh, go in anywhere Colonel, go in anywhere. You'll find lovely fighting all along the line.