Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

Only destruction of the enemy can be called victory.

The war is in the mountains,” he said. “For as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities with decrees, not with bullets.

They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.

There was nothing there but black water and American fire power.

It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments.

A war is a horrible thing, but it's also a unifier of countries.

I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.

Why do people want to kill and maim and pillage? We're all in it together.

One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country.

I'd been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as Chechnya.

When you go to war, both sides lose totally.

In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.

I ended the war a horse ahead.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

World history is tragic.

It's a major part of world history that men are trying to kill each other. It's just one slaughter after the other. We talk about it, but no one's really listening.

By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief.

That cause was one of the worst for which men have ever fought..

Do not say that someone has won and someone has lost. These are unappropriate, blasphemous words. We have all been scorched by the deadly breath of fratricide.

The Arab world is not in a compromising mood. It's likely that your plan is rational and logical, but the fate of nations is not decided by rational logic. Nations never concede; they fight. You won't get anything by peaceful means or compromise. You can, perhaps, get something, but only by the force of your arms. We shall try to defeat you. I am not sure we'll succeed, but we'll try. We were able to drive out the Crusaders, but on the other hand we lost Spain and Persia. It may be that we shall lose Palestine. But it's too late to talk of peaceful solutions.

History is a bath of blood.