Quotes about Foreign War

Charles Lindbergh

There is no better way to give comfort to an enemy than to divide the people of a nation over the issue of foreign war. There is no shorter road to defeat than by entering a war with inadequate preparation.

Victor Hugo

War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.

Charles Lindbergh

There is no better way to give comfort to an enemy than to divide the people of a nation over the issue of foreign war.

Henry Clay

I certainly am not willing to involve the country in a foreign war for the object of acquiring Texas.

Michel de Montaigne

A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.

John Joseph Pershing

Three thousand miles from home an American army is fighting for you. Everything you hold dear is at stake.

The American Army had just liberated Bellau Wood, but had lost almost 8,000 men.

Lupe Fiasco

You know what I had a problem with? The war - the war in Afghanistan.

John Quincy Adams

The respective powers of the President and Congress of the United States, in the case of war with foreign powers are yet undetermined. Perhaps they can never be defined.

John Hewson

To send our troops, our ships, our planes to this war is ridiculous.

Robert M. Gates

Can I just finish the 2 wars we’re in before you go on to another.

Lord North

… the war is now grown to such a height, that it must be treated as a foreign war, and that every expedient which would be used in the latter case should be applied in the former.

2nd Earl of Guilford. Britain had a double standard of how they would fight wars and battles. If the contention was a rebellion, more mild military means would be used. But if a foreign war, they would use all means. For example, the use of mercenaries would not be used in most rebellions. With this letter, Lord North was escalating the American Revolution into a “foreign war”. As a result, not only would mercenaries be used, but so would Indian allies whose mode of war was not as restrained as the British troops. It also allowed for emancipating slaves and inviting them to take up arms. With this quotation, the American Revolution was raised to a new and more serious military level. See {634115} for the instructions to implement this policy.

Foreign War Quotes