The only defensible war is a war of defense.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

We are moving towards a world that is reordering itself and that may appear more ordered at some periods of time, but I see no sign that we are moving towards a world order in my definition of it – namely, a system which is accepted, which is internalized by the majority of the key participants.

In Romania, American forces have found a devoted NATO ally.

No war is over until the enemy says it’s over.

I’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

The Bush Administration’s failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair, there is no hope.

In February 2004, the two traditional torturers of Haiti – France and the United States – combined to back a military coup and send President Aristide off to Africa. The U.S. denies him permission to return to the entire region.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven’t exactly been non-aggressive – including me.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

If you’re yelling you’re the one who’s lost control of the conversation.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

India can live without nuclear weapons. That’s our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

I’m not somebody that just wants to hold up a white flag and say, ‚Let’s all just get along.‘ I think people that do horrible things should be held accountable.

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

You can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can’t make peace without Syria.

America is a Nation with a mission – and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace – a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man’s idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

It’s silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.

I don’t oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

The U.S. is not constructing a palatial embassy, by far the largest in the world and virtually a separate city within Baghdad, and pouring money into military bases, with the intention of leaving Iraq to Iraqis.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and we get mad at them? That’s part of the normal diplomatic relations.

More understand China, then more people will have interest in China and more people will come to China to visit us because I am a tourist ambassador.

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.