Richard Cobden Quotes

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

My position has always been, along with many other people, that any differences be resolved in a nonviolent way.

There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.

I think we need to look for any opening we can to avoid a war and we shouldn't pass up any opportunity for resolution.

The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.

It is our duty to persuade the nations of the world, in whatever way that we can, to settle their differences in some other way. (Other than war)

I don't know what is to be done. This isn't war.

The alternative is not war or doing nothing. Whoever rejects war is not doomed to appeasement.

I have desired as sincerely as any man—I sometimes think more than any other man—that our present difficulties might be settled without the shedding of blood.

I wish to see the discovery of a plan that would induce and oblige nations to settle their disputes without cutting one another's throats.

We believe in resolving all disputes peacefully.

There is no conflict in the world that cannot be solved.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.

If you are going to make peace, you can't just meet nice people.

You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it.

Better talk than fight, if nothing of sovereign value is anyway lost. Dialogue has achieved more than confrontation in many parts of the world.

I am certain that we need a solution completely separate from military intervention.

If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise.

What you need to do in conflict resolution is to bring the people who believe that the answer to their political ambitions will be achieved through violence into a frame of mind that they accept that their political ambitions will be delivered by politics.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

Peace is not the absence of conflict. It is the ability to cope with conflict by peaceful means.

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed; peace is preferable to war in almost every contingency. Arbitration is the true method of settlement of international as well as local or individual differences.