Jose Maria Aznar Quotes

You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that

Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonour. They chose dishonour. They will have war.

A broader reading of history shows that appeasement, no matter how it is labeled, never fulfills the hopes of the appeasers.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

Peace comes through strength, not through retreat.

Repel force by force

We're not trying to start a war; we're trying to send a political message.

Douglas, Douglas, you would make Neville Chamberlain look like a warmonger

When it comes to China’s relationship with foreign countries, it is of course better to have peace. But before we can have real peace, China must be ready to fight. If we give in to every demand, then the more we seek peace, the less likely we are going to get it.

War is always an option. Peace is not.

We need to quit appeasing our adversaries, and we need to stand with our allies.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.

In international affairs, you never threaten things you're not prepared to do.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.