Andrew J. Bacevich Quotes

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

War is the national industry of Germany [Prussia].

Any great war must be a popular movement.

That was a declaration of war

If we have to go to war, we will.

But it cannot follow that because weapons and troops are now being deployed we are bound to go to war.

We are a nation at war - and we should act like it.

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

I can hardly repress our press and our people too. They are thirsting for war against England.

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

The only way to save our empires from the encroaching of the people is to engage in war, and thus substitute national passions for social aspirations.

We shall certainly not drift into war, but go to war if we do, because we intend it and have a purpose we mean to accomplish.

When you are making war, make war. A la guerre comme la guerre

We declared war on an enemy that had declared war on us many years earlier.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

It must be thoroughly understood that war is a necessity, and that the more readily we accept it, the less will be the ardor of our opponents.

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

Haven’t we learned that when you go to war, the outcome is unpredictable.

Mobilization is not aggression.… The aggressor is the one who renders inevitable the first shot, in other words the nation who first declares war.

We convinced him quickly that the possibility of war was absolutely nil and continued our festivity. On the next day we were ordered to take the field.

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

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

That is the best Government, which best provides for war.

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.