Quotes about War Value

August Friedrich Kellner

Did the occupation of other countries improve our own happiness? Does the individual German get anything out of such conquests?

Lyndon B. Johnson

It looks to me like we’re getting into another Korea …. What the hell is Vietnam worth to me? What is it worth to this country?

Thomas Paine

It is the object only of war that makes it honorable.

Otto von Bismarck

Constantinople is not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier.

Dick Cheney

While everybody was tremendously impressed with the low cost of the conflict, for the 146 Americans who were killed in action and for their families, it wasn't a cheap war. And the question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many

This statement was made in the first phase of the Iraq war where Cheney and President Bush thought the war was won. After that there were thousands of Americans killed in the war. Critics of the administration war policy threw this quotation up to him.

Otto von Bismarck

The Balkans arent worth the life of a single Pomeranian grenadier.

Walter Lippmann

It is in time of peace that the value of life is fixed. The test of war reveals it.

War Value Quotes