Quotes About Aggression

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.

War settles nothing.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

War's a profanity because, let's face it, you've got two opposing sides trying to settle their differences by killing as many of each other as they can.

There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.

If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague.

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

The American people voted for a president, Donald Trump, who's very tough, very strong, very aggressive on terrorism, but at the same time smart. At the same time sophisticated. At the same time, heeding the wisdom of our founders who warned about entangling foreign engagement.

We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river.

My wife likes the hockey smell because it's the smell of a warrior.

Since the first archer fired the first arrow, warriors have been inventing ways to strike their enemies while removing themselves from harm's way.

Social justice warriors want to return to the Dark Ages when you communicated with a club instead of joining one.

It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.

Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?

All wars are criminal.

The only reason an empire ever fights wars is to maintain empire.

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate.

And, you see, we are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.

In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.

Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.

If you start studying history closer, you'll find that most all wars are based on false flag operations to get people - to convince the people that they're under attack in some way so that they will support the wars.