Quotes About Strategy

Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.

What my enemies call a general peace is my destruction. What I call peace is merely the disarmament of my enemies. Am I not more moderate than they?

He who wants peace must prepare for war.

It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.

It is easy to know when a government wishes for peace by observing the character of the person sent to negotiate for it.

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.

He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.

The firmest security of peace is the preparation during peace of the defenses of war.

The ideal weapons system is built in 435 congressional districts and it doesn't matter whether it works or not.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

The true lesson of the Vietnam War is: certainty of purpose and ruthlessness of execution win wars.

It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.

A stronger defense is an investment in peace.

No, I know all the war rhetoric, but it's all aimed at achieving peace.

Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace. [Lat., Bellum autem ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud, nisi pax, quaesita videatur.]

A certain degree of preparation for war . . . affords also the best security for the continuance of peace.

Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods.

My father [Erwin Rommel] believed that Germany should have a great interest to leave the war with a peace under conditions.

I am not against all wars-just whichever is current.

I am a Nobel Peace laureate and my business should be to try to bring stability, not to be a red rag to bulls.

You can't buy peace by just wishing it and avoiding the challenges that other nations present to you.

I want to be the peace president.

A president must make decisions based upon principle and stand by the principles by which he makes decisions in order to achieve peace.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.