Quotes on Politics And War

The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.