Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.
The true object of war fought for God should always be peace.
The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn’t make it.
Our elite believe in a new trinity of equality, democracy and diversity. Indeed, after the Cold War, we declared the spread of democracy worldwide to be our historic mission and national goal.
I don’t know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.
A true war story is never moral.
God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.
A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It’s very easy to slip into a trade war.
Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans – born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
On 6 October 1973, the Yom Kippur war broke out between a coalition of Arab states and Israel. At 6 A.M. that morning, Kissinger, asleep in the Waldorf, was taken by surprise by the Arab attack – as were the CIA and the rest of the world.
War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.
My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
I’m trying to raise the awareness of the troops that, when they deploy and go to war, it’s not just them at war – it’s also their family. Their family is having to go through all the hardships and the stresses.
Ethanol reduces our dependence on foreign sources of oil and is an important weapon in the War on Terror. By investing in South Dakota’s ethanol producers, we will strengthen our energy security and create new jobs.
The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II to African-Americans in the Civil Rights era.
War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.
My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!
The Army War College has been a tradition in central Pennsylvania for years.
Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don’t change governments during war.
