Quotes About Decision

Sometimes momentous government action leaves everyone uncertain about the next move.

He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.

War is elective. It is not an inevitable state of affairs. War is not the weather.

I know the hole he went in at, but I can't tell you what hole he will come out of.

War is not the continuation of policy. It is the breakdown of policy.

It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.

War is a bankruptcy of policy

On this question of war, three things are to be considered. First, the right of declaring it: secondly, the expense of supporting it: thirdly, the mode of conducting it after it is declared.

... I am At war 'twixt will and will not.

One bad general is worth two good ones.

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

When someone makes a move Of which we don't approve, Who is it that always intervenes? U.N. and O.A.S., They have their place, I guess, But first send the Marines!

I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars.

A war minister is able to force the adoption of any measure desired by the Camp or to block any measure that meets his disapproval.

In war is it who's right, or who's left?

Headquarters in the Saddle.

War on the cheap is always a rotten policy.

Surrender is a perfectly acceptable alternative in extreme circumstances.

If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.

A surgeon will cut off a limb in order to protect the body from disease. And a commander-in-chief should pull out of a war that cannot be won in order to protect a nation.

I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed.

In an hour, you'll be in hell or glory.

I like what Abba Eban once said during the 1967 war. He said, "When all else fails, men turn to reason."

I am a war president.