Robert E. Lee Quotes

Anything is better than a fruitless, hopeless, unnatural civil war.

The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes there has never been peace in the world; and long before history began murderous strife was universal and unending.

Whence comes war and fighting, and factions? Whence but from the body and the lust of the body? Wars are occasioned by the love of money, and money has to be acquired for the same and service of the body.

I have to believe in the possibility of peace, because the alternative is to accept the inevitability of continual war, and of always living in fear. It doesn't have to be that way. However, there are no simple solutions, and I am not the possessor of a magic formula for peace. All I can say is that for peace to succeed it requires perseverance, patience, humility, compromise, and commitment, from all parties.

Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war.

The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing and destroying one another? Peace, brothers, is better than war. In a long and bloody war, we lose many friends, and gain nothing. Let us then live in peace and friendship together, doing to each other all the good we can.

Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.

We will not have peace by afterthought.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.

A bad peace is even worse than war.

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

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

Peace is obtained by war.

The difficulties of peace are better than the agony of war

How could we live without the sword?

Without a little blood-letting this Union will not, in my estimation, be worth a rush.

… what a fearful waste it is that we have to go killing each other before even a difference of opinion can be settled amongst people of the same nation.

We are too good to make war our most successful enterprise.

There is no alternative to peace. There is no sense to go to war.

If there is one path above all others to war, it is the path of weakness and disunity.