Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war but I could not. The North was mad and blind would not let us govern ourselves and so the war came.
Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
In war you win or lose live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is the sooner it will be over.
War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon – no alternative.
In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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.
The Cold War isn't thawing it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping it is as always plotting scheming working fighting.
The war on drugs is wrong both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid too reckless and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.
The executive has no right in any case to decide the question whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total… because it may well involve the whole world.
