Bashir Assad Quotes

Two great and terrible truths of war are these: War is easy to enter into, but difficult to end. And ultimately, in war there are no winners.

People who start wars never know exactly how they will turn out.

Wars are fought for political considerations. Military victory alone is never enough

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.

War is the trade of Kings.

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.

In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.

The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

War is failure of diplomacy.

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

War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.

Our country has never started a war. Our sole objective is deterrence, the strength and capability it takes to prevent war.

Every aspect of war is political.

The truth is that one cannot choose the form of war one wants.

Military action without political context is ineffective.

Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the next one.

War is a series of disasters which result in a winner.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

War, we are told, shapes character; it resolves the major questions of international politics, consolidates nations, and indeed, constitutes the principal factor in the progress of civilization through its successive stages.

I've traveled with Jack Murtha to Iraq three times to learn more about the region, talk with our diplomats and military leaders, and meet with our troops. Those visits are the main reason that I opposed the War in Iraq since its inception.