Marcus Luttrell Quotes

No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.

I am voting for this war so as not to be disloyal to President Bush.

There was in the House only one dissenting vote, from Barbara J. Lee, a Democrat from California, who warned that military action could not guarantee the safety of the country and that 'as we act, let us not become the evil we deplore.

I have never understood why the politicians who are most eager to send soldiers into harm's way are always depicted as their most ardent friends.

Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire.

War is just one more big government program.

Genius, scholar, and war hero though he is, you have to admit - or maybe you should think about admitting - that George Bush might have rushed things a little in invading Iraq.

Woe to the statesman whose reason for entering a war do not appear so plausible at its end as at its beginning.

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

The Democrats are the party of war.

If there is going to be a war – and no one can say that there is not – we must keep him fresh to be our war Prime Minister

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

If this phrase of “the balance of power” is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting …

The military people don't like it; the government probably doesn't like it, but the people should know what they're sending their young people into when they permit their governments to declare war and engage in war.

I know I will be severely criticized by the interventionists in America when I say we should not enter a war unless we have a reasonable chance of winning.

During a time of war, we ask our troops to give their best even to the point of sacrificing their own lives. When compared against that, how much of a sacrifice is it for a president to engage in a possibly contentious debate with Congress about whether military action is a good idea?

Advocating war is easier when you and your family are not endangered by it.

War is the only destination to which Washington can lead.

I so respect Sen. McCain's service to this country, and no one certainly knows more about torture than he does, and so I recognize that.

I've never understood why anyone would want to join the army, but that's irrelevant. The fact of the matter is that, as long as we go on voting in governments who are prepared to take troops into an illegal war, that army is a necessity.

Now that Obama is at war in a 3rd country, does that mean he has to give back his Nobel Peace Prize?

When you elect chicken hawks, chicken hawks take you to war.

I really wanted to talk about the War on Terror and say that both sides were completely incompetent [in addressing it]. You can't blame the other side when you're involved in it.

"What war?" said the Prime Minister sharply. "No one has said anything to me about a war. I really think I should have been told. I'll be damned," he said defiantly, "if they shall have a war without consulting me. What's a cabinet for, if there's not more mutual confidence than that? What do they want a war for anyway?"

The war against Iraq is as disastrous as it is unnecessary; perhaps in terms of its wisdom, purpose and motives, the worst war in American history... Our military men and women...were not called to defend America but rather to attack Iraq. They were not called to die for, but rather to kill for, their country. What more unpatriotic thing could we have asked of our sons and daughters...?