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War Quotes by Robert McNamara
- That's one of the major lessons: no president should ever take this nation to war without full public debate in the Congress and/or in the…
- To this day we seem to act in the world as though we know what's right for everybody.
- Short of nuclear war itself, population growth is the gravest issue the world faces. If we do not act, the problem will be solved by…
- The greatest contribution Vietnam is making-right or wrong is beside the point-is that it is developing an ability in the United States to fight a…
- At my age, 85, I'm at age where I can look back and derive some conclusions about my actions. My rule has been try to…
- If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals. And I think he's right. He, and I'd say I, were behaving…
- I want to say, and this is very important: at the end we lucked out. It was luck that prevented nuclear war. We came that…
- All those involved in the firebombing of Tokyo .. were war criminals interviews recorded in the movie The Fog of War.. the firebombing of Tokyo…
- I don't object to its being called "McNamara's war." I think it is a very important war and I am pleased to be identified with…
- In my seven years as Secretary, we came within a hair's breadth of war with the Soviet Union on three different occasions! Twenty-four hours a…
- In the end, it was luck. We were *this* close to nuclear war, and luck prevented it.
More War Quotes
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him. — William Shakespeare
- Here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it. — William Shakespeare
- O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint. — William Shakespeare
- There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old. — William Shakespeare
- A man can die but once. — William Shakespeare
- Go, bid the soldiers shoot. — William Shakespeare