Margaret Thatcher Quotes

I think, unfortunately, we live in a world where people attack other people and I think a legitimate rationale for war is the saving of human life, the saving of lives of people who cannot defend themselves.

No man could know whether war might not at any moment break out.

Great armaments lead inevitably to war.

We will need ploughshares and swords.

Repel force by force

Good men must defend themselves by taking to them for a Sanctuary the two daughters of War, Deceit and Violence:

Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually, genuinely desiring peace.

There is a difference between myself and some of the peace people in Europe: whereas they think that the ultimate evil in the world is war, I think the ultimate evil in the world is aggression, and aggression sometimes must be repelled by force.

Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.

He said that if we were going to have a war, they would never be the first ones to start it.

And, you see, we are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.

We make war that we may live in peace.

I'm really interested in how conflicts arise and how they reach points of no return. I'm no pacifist. Sometimes force is necessary. But war is a choice.

Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea. I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.

I’m not opposed to all wars; just dumb wars.

The cause of war is preparation for war.

We believe in peace, but we are not pacifists. Sometimes we have to use force

I am fed up with war and the clamor for war.

Weapons are the tools of fear.

If mankind hated war, there would be millions of us and only two soldiers.

The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace.