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War Quotes by Colin Powell
- I want to scare the hell out of the rest of the world.
- I can think of nothing that Saddam Hussein can do diplomatically (to avoid war). I think that time is now over. He's had his chance,…
- That's not really a number I'm terribly interested in.
- No war on the face of the Earth is more destructive than the AIDS pandemic.
- No one has done more to prevent conflict - no one has made a greater sacrifice for the cause for Peace - than you, America's…
- Our senior officers knew the war was going badly. Yet they bowed to groupthink pressure and kept up pretenses. ...Many of my generation, the career…
- The long bitter years of the Cold War are over. America and her allies have won; totally, decisively, and overwhelmingly....So thank you SAC. Job well…
- Policies that emanate from ivory towers often have an adverse impact on the people out in the field who are fighting the wars or bringing…
- President Reagan fueled the spirit of America. His smile, his optimism, his total belief in the ultimate triumph of democracy and freedom, and his willingness…
- War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.
- There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about…
- Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill…
- I made the case to Gen. Franks and Secretary Rumsfeld before the president that I was not sure we had enough troops. The case was…
More War Quotes
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of… — William Henry Ashley
- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. — Isaac Asimov