Quote by John Bolton
Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.

Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war. – John Bolton

Other quotes by John Bolton

Well, Im a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom. – John Bolton

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Freedom
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Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century – freedom against Communism – so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. – John Bolton

Category:
Freedom
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People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that its assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale. – John Bolton

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War
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War
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One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies. – Terry Eagleton

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War

If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia. – Hans A. Bethe

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War

The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it. – Louis Simpson

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War

Even under the best of circumstances, the road back from war is difficult. – Ron Wyden

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War

Random Quotes

Dios tarda pero no olvida — God delays but doesnt forget. – Proverb

Category:
Patience

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. – Ernest Hemingway

Category:
Life

I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life. – Constance Baker Motley

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Success

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Miscellaneous