I don’t think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

We all recognize that the Mid-east is dissolving into crises, and we know terrorism did not start with 9-11.

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

The list of U.S. vetoes at the Security Council to protect Israeli aggression and occupation is huge.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

The U.S. military is not war weary. Our military draws strength from confronting our enemies when clear policy objectives are set and we are fully resourced for the fight.

In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.

War is what happens when language fails.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

The Bush Administration’s failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

This is not Johnson’s war. This is America’s war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

In the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with them, contact was difficult. I managed to use MIT’s Arpanet connection, and she found one, so we could communicate thanks to the Pentagon!

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It’s very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.

It’s easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.

I am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

Morality is contraband in war.

In 1949, China declared independence – an event known in Western discourse as ‚the loss of China‘ in the U.S. – with bitter recriminations and conflict over who was responsible for that loss.

I’ve never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.

We give speeches and pin ribbons onto uniforms, etch names into walls. And all that is fine, but too often, all those tributes, all those words aren’t always backed up by action. And that felt like such a stark contrast to me, because, as we all know, our military is all about action.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

The high probability is if American forces withdraw from Afghanistan and if no alternative international arrangement is made that then the historic contests between the regions and the sects will reappear, the Taliban will re-emerge, and a very complicated and maybe chaotic situation will develop.

The truth of the matter is that Iran is a cancer.

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars – yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.

As I’ve said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis‘ future.

The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.

You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it’s not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there’s been human beings.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Some of the generals are saying, ‚We’re making progress. We are clearing an area.‘ But you really don’t defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

Organized murder is war, and though we demonstrate against a particular war, the nuclear, or any other kind of war, we have never demonstrated against war.

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose – and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

The earth is bountiful, and where her bounty fails, nitrogen drawn from the air will refertilize her womb. I developed a process for this purpose in 1900. It was perfected fourteen years later under the stress of war by German chemists.

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you’d see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I’ve never detected any conflict between God’s will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

Al Qaeda is almost all in Pakistan, and Pakistan has nuclear weapons. And yet for every dollar we’re spending in Pakistan, we’re spending $30 in Afghanistan. Does that make strategic sense?