Henry Cabot Lodge Quotes

When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

If you shake your fist, the other guy will shake his too. But if you extend your hand to shake their hand, then they will extend theirs also, and you've made a friend.

We cannot expect to make everyone our friend, but we can try to make no one our enemy.

If a nation wants to live in peace with its neighbors, it doesn't keep rattling the saber at them.

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

The idea that if people are just friendly and demonstrate they want peace, that will be answered with good will - that is really naive.

Peace comes through dealing with people. Peace doesn't come at the end of a bayonet or the end of a gun.

There's no room for petty grievances in politics.

Without aggression, it becomes possible to think well, to be curious about differences, and to enjoy each other's company.

The new government will not assail you. You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors.

No doubt it requires two to fight. But both of them need not necessarily be fighters. It is, all the same, a fight, even if one goes on beating and the other gets beaten. There is no guarantee that others would behave properly with us even if we remain peaceful and cordial with them.

Anybody who resorts to violence will have no friends in the United States.

Stop the fighting and find the middle ground.

A policy that can be accurately, though perhaps not prudently, defined as one of “peaceful co-existence.”

Like individuals, some peoples are naturally pacific and some naturally aggressive.

Our Russian policy must not be dictated by people who have already made up their minds there is no possibility of working with the Russians and that our interests are bound to conflict and ultimately lead to war. From my point of view, this is an untenable position and can but lead to disaster.

Better to cooperate with those you believe to be misguided than to risk mutual destruction.

Israel will never surrender to hatred.

We can find common ground in agreeing that politics have no room in foreign policy.

There's always a fine line that divides hostility from neutrality, and I don't want to pass that line.

Biden can talk about politics not needing to be a raging fire. But it is.

Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate.

But you've got to understand what the other guy is about, even if at the end of the process you decide that there is no ground with this man or woman except to fight them.

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.

Social peace requires reciprocity.