Ronald Reagan Quotes

We often fight wars with our young.

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.

Once you start a war, you have to win.

We cannot go on fighting a war for small hills.

The question in my mind then is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many.

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

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.

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.

We don't go to war to protect Pizza Hut or Burger King or some other things, some of the nonsense I've seen on our battlefields.

I've been to war, and I know the consequences and sacrifice it takes. If we must fight, we fight to win.

We've been at war for many years in Afghanistan following 9/11. We know that we've got young men and women on the ground now. We've got our blood and treasure at stake there already.

You have to decide in advance whether you're ready go to war. If you guys are ready to send a million troops into Ukraine and fight World War III, you're going to do it without my support because I think that's a really foolish notion.

If you think I would have gone to war the way George Bush did, don't vote for me.

I like war.

The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.

I think when war becomes your life, I think it's very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.

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

Overseas, America's fighting men and women have been waging war against those who would attack America and plunge the world into a period of darkness, and their success can easily be seen.

It's an important fact of life, war.

No one really wants to send their kids off to die for oil.

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

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.