Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

I don't consider myself dovish and I certainly don't consider myself hawkish. Maybe I would describe myself as owlishthat is wise enough to understand that you want to do everything possible to avoid war.

I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. . . . No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.

The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.

If we can cultivate in the world the idea that aggressive war-making is the way to the prisoner's dock rather than the way to honors, we will have accomplished something toward making the peace more secure.

Today the real test of America's power and wisdom is not our capacity to make war but our capacity to prevent it. Prevention must be our overriding objective. It can be done. Surrendering to the inevitability of combat only paves the way for its occurring.

War settles nothing.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.

Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war.

Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile.

Each one of these treaties is a step for the maintenance of peace, an additional guarantee against war. It is through such machinery that the disputes between nations will be settled and war prevented.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

I certainly don't like a label that suggests I believe that the military is the solution to most of the world's problems.

Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.

... the greatest moral victory in the history of civilization if it actually keeps out of a war.

America’s fundamental aspiration is the preservation of peace…. This can only be done on the basis of comprehensive and appropriate information.

Wars are seldom won as quickly as everyone expects, and almost always create far more problems than they solve

If women ran the world there would be no wars. However every 28 days there would be some very intense negotiations.

Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is available power to enforce it.

Whenever you have a possibility of going in two ways, either for peace or for war, for peaceful methods of for military methods, in the present age there is a strong prejudice for the peaceful ones. War seldom ever leads to good results.

The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people.

We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn't it time that we should take risks to secure peace?

Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore, in addition to causing horrendous damage, they prove ultimately futile.