Robert M. T. Hunter Quotes

Diplomacy has failed. The sword must now preserve our independence.

If a rogue nation were to attack the U.K. physically, I would be a patriot, yes; I would try to defend the U.K.

The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force.

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.

If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed.

When the commander-in-chief sends Americans to fight and die, it should be only to protect our vital national interests, not for his own personal, political gain.

It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.

It's alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States.

It kind of scares me, the notion that we're going to be injecting ourselves into other countries' affairs when they're not posing a threat to our security. I wouldn't be telling Israel what to do.

Except in case of attack by armed forces … the people shall have the sole power by a national referendum to declare war or to engage in warfare overseas.

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.

I will protect and defend France's vital interests. I will protect and defend Europe.

Missile strikes - or any other such action - against a sovereign nation is an act of war.

All I can say is we will fully utilise our right to self-defence. No one can just do what they want on our borders.

Declarations of war have never been a constitutional requirement for military action abroad.

A state department official once told me this about the role of the president. He said: "We wage war for realist reasons, we justify wars for idealist reasons, and it's the president's job to balance the two." I agree.

Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy.

Let's remember that the reason we are there is that we have vital interests in Afghanistan, hugely important national interests, as do the other countries involved.

[To the House of Representatives before casting the only vote against allowing George W. Bush to use 'all necesary and appropriate force' in response to 9/11:] We must be careful not to embark on an open-ended war with neither an exit strategy nor a focused target. We cannot repeat past mistakes.

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...?

So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our people have been killed. We will be relentless in defense of our citizens and our friends and allies. We will be true to the values that make us who we are.

We have discovered that the scheme of 'outlawing war' has made war more like an outlaw without making it less frequent and that to banish the knight does not alleviate the suffering of the peasant.

Israel will not transfer Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza District to any foreign sovereign authority, [because] of the historic right of our nation to this land, [and] the needs of our national security, which demand a capability to defend our State and the lives of our citizens.

If the choice is go to war or end up with an American city hit by weapon of mass destruction, then the choice is easy.

I'm not sure that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama know that we're at war.