“The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.”
Gen William C. Westmoreland
“Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like”
Randall Jarrell
“Some Japanese politicians stick to their wrong view of history and try to justify their country's past military misdeeds. Those Japanese politicians should stop their fallacies, give up their wrong views, and return to the right track of mending fences.”
Xinhua News Agency
“The army will not get involved in the political conflict. Political troubles should be resolved by politicians. Military coups are a thing of the past.”
Gen. Sondhi Boonyaratkalin
“One of the lessons of the Vietnam war is that when politicians dabble in military affairs they tie the hands of our soldiers and prevent them from succeeding.”
Chris Muller
“Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
