War Cost Quotes

Americans know that war must be paid for and it is they who must pay for it.

The cost of deploying one U. S. soldier is the equivalent to the cost of deploying 70 Afghan soldiers.

The most expensive peace is far less costly than the cheapest war.

War is not popular politically because there is always a cost—a cost in people and a cost in money.

War is not cheap, but it's the human cost that's the highest.

We could not bring democracy to South Vietnam at a cost that we were willing to accept. So it was a disaster. That' is the left extreme.

Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself.

It's a fraction of the cost to prevent a war than prosecute a war.

A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.

Victory was to be bought so dear as to be almost indistinguishable from defeat.

... the most expensive luxury the war produced.

Tragically, the effort to make America and the world safer and to defend freedom around the world is not without an enormous cost to this Nation in terms primarily of lost lives and those who bear the scars and the wounds of war, and their families who must bear these losses.

If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.

By the time we complete the care for the wounded soldiers, $6 trillion, that's $50,000 per American household.

As a soldier, I've served with the most brave people in an institution that's built on integrity, honor, and duty. This is why I'm working very hard to support Senator Bernie Sanders - not only to get through the Democratic primary, but also to win the presidency. He is the only candidate on both sides who understands the cost of war, who has that foresight to keep our country safe, and who will make sure that our military power is not being when and where it shouldn't be.

For war there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive.

It costs us $1 million for every troop[soldier] in Afghanistan.

Less than one half-day’s cost of this war would pay for all the slaves in Delaware, at four hundred dollars per head?—that eighty-seven days cost of this war would pay for all in Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Kentucky, and Missouri at the same price?

The reality is no one knows how much it will cost us to wage war with Iraq.

The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century.

Even if America entered the war, it is improbable that the Allied armies could invade Europe and overwhelm the Axis powers. But one thing is certain. If England can draw this country into the war, she can shift to our shoulders a large portion of the responsibility for waging it and for paying its cost.

The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.

He who wishes to fight must first count the cost

While everybody was tremendously impressed with the low cost of the conflict, for the 146 Americans who were killed in action and for their families, it wasn't a cheap war. And the question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many

Iraq and Afghanistan have exacted a toll on America - in lives, treasure and standing - that it will take a generation to work through.