Paul Craig Roberts Quotes

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

If we think it necessary to wage war, we shall do so with or without your consent.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

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

War is too serious a matter to be entrusted to generals.

Sometimes there is no substitute for military action.

There is no passion to which the rulers of a people can address themselves with greater [political] effect [than war.]

… a visceral fear of appeasement has led to entirely avoidable disasters

War is always an option. Peace is not.

War is the continuation of politics." In this sense war is politics and war itself is political action.... It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

The thing is that war is the opposite of negotiation. It's when you cannot negotiate, when you cannot talk, when you cannot reach agreements that then you have war.

Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Either we're going to solve this by realistic negotiation or there will be blood on the border.

There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

I think that war is diplomacy by other means, for sure, and there have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons. There are wars that have had to be fought, and there will probably continue to be.

Naturally our Government would not consent to such terms, and so the war had to proceed.

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

We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years … and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in, and otherwise we have returned home … to live our own lives in peace. But there comes a time when soft power or talking with evil will not work where, unfortunately, hard power is the only thing that works.

It would be superfluous for me to point out to your Lordship that this is war.

War can be done by arms. War can be done by economic means.

No man could know whether war might not at any moment break out.