Back Quote by Sean Strickland

First of all, war is a very, very difficult thing to deal with, even on the good days.

— Saxby Chambliss

It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.

— Sallust

In war, while everything is simple, even the simplest thing is difficult. Difficulties accumulate and produce frictions which no one can comprehend who has…

— Carl von Clausewitz

We are not a warlike people. Nor is our history filled with tales of aggressive adventures and imperialism, which might come as a shock…

— Ronald Reagan

It is a damned sight easier to start wars than to end them. This truth has been stated for as long and as often…

— Malcolm Forbes

Even under the best of circumstances, the road back from war is difficult.

— Ron Wyden

You know why we're good at it? Because we get a lot of practice. This country is only 200 years old, and already we've…

— George Carlin

Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.

— John F. Kennedy

Everything in war is simple, but the simplest thing is difficult. The difficulties accumulate and end by producing a kind of friction that is…

— Karl Von Clausewitz

After four or five different wars, I grew weary of that work, partly because in an open war, open to coverage, as Vietnam was,…

— Morley Safer

We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling…

— Barack Obama

War is an option of difficulties.

— James Wolfe