Bill Clinton Quotes

Democracies don't war; democracies are peaceful countries.

Democracies don't go to war.

We are equal in war but not in peace.

Democracy is an objective. Democratization is a process. Democratization serves the cause of peace because it offers the possibility of justice and of progressive change without force.

Our aim is a democratic peace.

I believe that democracies do not go to war; that's the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic Pakistan is the world community's best guarantee of stability in Asia.

The idea that democracies never make war on each other rests on very thin historical ice.

To Perpetual Peace

Borders cannot be redrawn in blood.

To win the War, to overcome the enemy upon the fields cannot alone ensure the Victory in Peace. The cause of War must be removed. Each Nation's rights must be secure from violation. Above all, from the human mind must be erased all thoughts of War as a solution. Then and then only will War cease.

There's not going to be a World War III, because there is no one to have World War III with.

Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.

Let there be no more war or bloodshed between Arabs and Israelis. Let there be no more suffering or denial of rights. Let there be no more despair or loss of faith.

When peace has been broken anywhere, the peace of all countries is in danger.

The end of the Cold War removed the immediate causes of whole destruction but not the threat contained in our knowledge. We must tame this knowledge with the ideals of justice, caring, and compassion summoned from our common human spiritual and moral heritage, if we are to live in peace and serenity in the twenty-first century.

We Americans know - although others appear to forget - the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war.

God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it.

Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy.

I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country.

There are laws for peace as well as war.

Democracies are poor breeding grounds for terrorism and war.

The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.