Jimmy Carter Quotes

No war is inevitable until it breaks out.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

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

We should have known better after the first war.

We can't just pop off and drop a bomb on North Korea and think everything's going to be OK. It just doesn't work like that. It's a complicated puzzle.

The key lesson of the 1930s is that appeasement leads directly to war.

I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war.

I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.

Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.

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

I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict.

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

We ought to nuke North Korea right about now just to give the world a warning.

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

induce me to aid them in their unholy and execrable design of manufacturing a war with Mexico.

Any idea that you can have a league for security is nuts, and all people who favor it are potential murderers… as long as man is man, there will be war and the only way to avoid trouble is to have the best army and navy, which we now have.

Are we going to start a war, the end of which we cannot see?

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

We can’t always pick and choose which conflicts were going to get into.

If this phrase of “the balance of power” is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting …

But all history has taught us the grim lesson that no nation has ever been successful in avoiding the terrors of war by refusing to defend its rights - by attempting to placate aggression.

Lightly armed nations can move toward war just as easily as those which are armed to the teeth, and they will do so if the usual causes of war are not removed.

Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.

I say at this point, for different reasons, Bush and Hussein are both very threatening to world peace and to deny that is to be incredibly naive.

Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?