William McKinley Quotes

I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact. How it changes you. How it changes the way you look at the world.

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

History goes out of control almost as often as nature does.

It will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I have dubbed 'the integral accident' that is the continuation of politics by other means.

The war is not planned. I don't believe that any responsible person plans it. But it's thought as possible.

The events of war are subject to great uncertainty.

War is not neat. It's not tidy. It's a mess.

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

When you start a military intervention, you do not know what will happen even in the next hour

We are readying ourselves to enter a long tunnel full of blood and darkness.

We talk about how hard it is now. But if we look back at the '60s, we actually had a president that was assassinated. We had riots, we had Vietnam, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, the FBI, and the Black Panther war. There was so much happening at the time where it felt like America was coming apart at the seams.

Revolutions and their aftermaths, of course, are always fluid and fickle times, and the outcome is often perched on a knife's edge.

Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.

Events are moving so fast and what in one moment seems impossible, the next is happening. I'm sure historians will, in time, provide theories and analysis, but for now I think most of us simply want the tide stemmed.

We are muddled into war.

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

War is an abstraction.

A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.

Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.

People who start wars never know exactly how they will turn out.

History will show that perhaps we did not think through the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad. But here we are.

The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.