Henry A. Kissinger | war
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.
Henry A. Kissinger | war Read More »
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.
Henry A. Kissinger | war Read More »
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other – instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
Edward Abbey | war Read More »
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.
James Madison | war Read More »
Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.
Ulysses S. Grant | war Read More »
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.
Richard M. Nixon | war Read More »
There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.
Reinhold Niebuhr | war Read More »