Vietnam presumably taught us that the United States could not serve as the world’s policeman; it should also have taught us the dangers of trying to be the world’s midwife to democracy when the birth is scheduled to take place under conditions of guerrilla war.

––Jeane Kirkpatrick

When I take action, I’m not going to fire a 2 million dollar missile at a 10-dollar empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.

––George W. Bush

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

––Napoleon Bonaparte

I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.

––George Washington

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.

 ––Omar N. Bradley

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

––Barbara Tuchman