Adequate Quote by Smedley Butler

I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble…

— Smedley Butler

War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of…

— Smedley Butler

War is an irrational, counter-productive way to handle conflicts.

— Lawrence S. Wittner

A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.

— Theodore Roosevelt

First, separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. If ever again we should be involved in war, we will fight it in…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you.

— Frank Herbert

We are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.

— George Wald

I think, unfortunately, we live in a world where people attack other people and I think a legitimate rationale for war is the saving…

— Sebastian Junger

And, you see, we are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.

— George Wald

“Our whole strategy must be to prevent the Allies from securing a beachhead, because once they achieve that, the battle is lost…perhaps even the…

— Ken Follett

I think we look to the military as something that protects our shores.

— Jerry Bruckheimer

Wherever there is somebody else, a war is not far away.

— Dejan Stojanovic