Mike Lee Quotes

I'm really interested in how conflicts arise and how they reach points of no return. I'm no pacifist. Sometimes force is necessary. But war is a choice.

It makes no difference who says that our objective is peace, even if he be the President of the United States. Our actions speak louder than words, and our actions in Asia today are the actions of warmaking.

We will not allow other countries to use our soil as a battleground.

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

But they were going to war anyway and they were going to bully and pressure countries to vote for it.

We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.

Governments go to war directly or by proxy without declaring war. Force, or threat of force, are constantly used to dominate other countries.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they will sit back hoping for peace if any nation uses force or the threat of force to acquire dominion over other peoples and other governments.

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.

We're not going to baby sit a civil war.

Moreover, if the territorial state is to continue as the last word in the development of society, then war is inevitable.

I’m not opposed to all wars; just dumb wars.

We’re not declaring war. We haven’t declared war since the Second World War. We’re going to war.

As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.

The English people would never consent to go to war for a cause in which England was not manifestly interested.

That was a declaration of war

Whenever peace—conceived as the avoidance of war—has been the primary objective of a power or group of powers, the international system has been at the mercy of the most ruthless member of the international community.

A rational fear of an imminent danger is said to be a justifiable cause of war.

The end of war is to procure by force the justice which cannot otherwise be obtained.

There seems no reason to doubt that such real approval as the Charter has among the people is based upon the belief that if the Charter is put into effect, wars will end... The Charter will not certainly end war. Some will ask - why not? In the first place, there is no provision in the Charter itself that contemplates ending war. It is true the Charter provides for force to bring peace, but such use of force is itself war... It is true the Charter is built to prepare for war, not to promote peace... The Charter is a war document, not a peace document. Not only does the Charter Organization not prevent future wars, but it makes it practically certain that we will have future wars, and as to such wars it takes from us the power to declare them, to choose the side on which we shall fight, to determine what forces and military equipment we shall use in the war, and to control and command our sons who do the fighting