Robert Webb Quotes

I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.

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

I'm not a fighter. If there's something going on that I really feel strongly about, I'll certainly stand up but I pick my battles.

Demeanor-wise, Reagan was a conservative, but a pragmatic conservative, and he found silver linings in things. He liked to be a mediator. He didn't like to have enemies around him.

The idea of reasoning with terrorists without force or with appeasement is naive, and I think it's dangerous.

The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.

I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

I hate fights. I try to talk people out of fighting if I can and if they start I run away.

I never thought I'd say this: what Obama needs in his personality is a little George Bush.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

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

I don't think we should ever be at war. That's kind of naive, I suppose.

Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

That he was so enamoured on peace, that he would have been glad the king should have bought it at any price.

Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.

Force should never be the first answer, but sometimes it is the only answer.

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

An honorable peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human blood; but, if this war should continue, I wash to have the most active part in it.

If war is so easily averted as all this it does seem a pity no P[rime] M[inister] except Neville Chamberlain] has thought of it before. Peace without Honour seems to be what we have got. I'm glad. One can't expect both.

We shall never war except for peace.

Those who were not taught to fight, have naturally inclined in favor of any other mode of settling differences rather than that of fighting.

Peace at any price.

An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war.