Dennis Kucinich Quotes

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

Are we going to start a war, the end of which we cannot see?

We can’t always pick and choose which conflicts were going to get into.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?

We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.

No war is inevitable until it breaks out.

War implies a lack of comprehension of mutual national interests; it means the undermining and even the end of culture.

I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments.

Well, I asked him who would start the war first.

We have lived a long time.... without war... We have had peace when all the world has been in arms... It is … a thing most horrible that we should engage ourself in war with another.... With our own venom... we will destroy ourself.

When one nation is agreed in the policy of fighting another, any pretext will answer.

History teaches, perhaps, very few clear lessons. But surely one such lesson learned by the world at great cost is that aggression, unopposed, becomes a contagious disease.

induce me to aid them in their unholy and execrable design of manufacturing a war with Mexico.

Global war has become a Frankenstein to destroy both sides. No longer is it a weapon of adventure – the shortcut to international power … It contains only the germs of double suicide.

I’m not starting World War III for you.

War is always a very blunt instrument and almost always produces uncertain results.

War is the father of all.