War Legitimacy Quotes

[Vladimir] Putin needs wars to legitimize his position.

Every war which has not been announced and declared should be adjudged unjust and impious.

War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.

The legitimacy of a war is not established by how it is organized but by what it achieves.

The tragedy of America is that it entered all the wars with a consensus in favor of them, but within a defined period, the legitimacy of the war became a major domestic issue, with some people arguing that withdrawal was the only legitimate objective.

If the United States marches into Iraq without the backing of the United Nations, that will be done entirely without the backing of the American people.

So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal.

In modern eyes, precious though wars may be they must not be waged solely for the sake of the ideal harvest. Only when forced upon one, is a war now thought permissible.