Claudian Quotes

There can be no peace with someone who wants to kill you.

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

Ignorance is a menace to peace.

The enemies of peace have not disappeared.

You can’t have peace without a war.

The root of war is fear.

What are they going to do, shoot me? It's not war you know.

Peace is impossible, war is improbable.

A point has been reached where the peoples of the Americas must take cognizance of growing ill-will, of marked trends toward aggression, of increasing armaments, of shortening tempers--a situation which has in it many of the elements that lead to the tragedy of general war.... Peace is threatened by those who seek selfish power.

As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.

For WAR, consisteth not in Battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to content by Battle is sufficiently known.... So the nature of War, consisteth not in actual fighting; but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary. All other time is PEACE.

Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

If you aren't please tell me how you are going to not have a war.

People always make war when they say they love peace.

We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.

It is far easier to make war than peace.

For a time during the early settlement of this country peace and goodwill prevailed, only to be followed later by violent and relentless warfare.

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

A bad peace is even worse than war.

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?