peacebuilding quotes

The United States supports a strong, united Ukraine with productive and peaceful relationships with both the East and the West, with both Russia and Europe.

The crimes against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and elsewhere, particularly Lebanon, are so shocking that the only emotionally valid reaction is rage and a call for extreme actions. But that does not help the victims. And, in fact, it’s likely to harm them.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

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

We need to keep making our streets safer and our criminal justice system fairer – our homeland more secure, our world more peaceful and sustainable for the next generation.

If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it to them.

The world is too violent right now.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don’t attack each other. Free nations don’t develop weapons of mass destruction.

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.

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

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.