Choices Quote by Abraham Lincoln

The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force.

— Robert A. Heinlein

War should be not a war of choice; it should be a war of necessity. And it should be a last resort.

— John F. Kerry

My great objection to this government is, that it does not leave us the means of defending our rights, or of waging war against…

— Patrick Henry

The only true resistance to this Government... [is] to cease to co-operate with it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

A government which uses force to maintain its rule teaches the oppressed to use force to oppose it.

— Nelson Mandela

The decision to attack Iraq in March 2003 was discretionary; it was a war of choice.

— Richard N. Haass

When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original…

— Alexander Hamilton

Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort to diminish…

— H. L. Mencken

Iraq was a war of choice, like Vietnam.

— Chuck Hagel

The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when…

— Edward Abbey

While war is never anyone first choice, sometimes it is a necessary choice.

— Gresham Barrett