Madeleine Albright Quotes

Japan and Australia share the universal values of freedom, democracy, the rule of law, and fundamental human rights.

We are not seeking... and looking for war with any nations. We are seeking peace and stability among all the nations in the region.

Iraq can emerge as a beacon of hope and democracy in the Middle East, and the world, with our help.

Those of us who actually were working in the region at the time will point out how strongly committed we were to supporting the democratic process and encouraging elections, in spite of the fact that a war was going on in several of these countries.

There is more than enough room in the world for Germany and Britain.

Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples.

You can’t build a united nation on the basis of revenge.

What repeated follies are those repeated wars! You do not want to conquer and govern one another. Why, then, should you be continually employed in injuring and destroying one another? How many excellent things might have been done to promote the internal welfare of each country; what bridges, roads, canals, and other useful public works and institutions, tending to the common felicity, might have been made and established with the money and men foolishly spent during the last seven centuries by our mad wars in doing one another mischief! You are near neighbors, and each have very respectable qualities. Learn to be quiet and to respect each other's rights. You are all Christians.

Our two nations share the important values of democracy and freedom and liberty. My visit to the United States has indeed reinforced this mutual conviction and determination to ensure that our two peoples cherish these values.

Odisha is a peaceful state; the people will not stand for violence in a democracy.

I pray that we learn to live together. That Jerusalem is one, with law and order.

We must seek, above all, a world of peace; a world in which peoples dwell together in mutual respect and work together in mutual regard.

Democracy is good for world peace.

Gandhi was right: if we all live by 'an eye for an eye' the whole world will be blind. The only way out is forgiveness.

The peace we seek and need means much more than mere absence of war. It means the acceptance of law, and the fostering of justice, in all the world.

The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful prosperity.

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

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

People, I just want to say, can we all get along? Can we get along?

My ambition is peace and perfection.

We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.

Peace must be more than the absence of war.

The supreme need of the world is peace and good will among men. It must be peace founded upon justice and fairness, the righting of past wrong, and the securing of the future as far as possible against the evils of the past.

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.