Samuel de Champlain Quotes

Arms alone are not enough to keep the peace. It must be kept by men.

Building walls isn't going to work in the long run. Some people are happy with the wall in Israel, but somebody will get a weapon someday and knock it over or something. Walls aren't the answer between countries, though.

One of the elements in the film that really fascinated me was not to look at the world in bi-polar terms of us vs them or east vs west, which was a by-product of the Cold War.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon.

Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.

Where in the world would I rather be than on the front line of history?

If you look at human society, it is very easy, of course, to compare our warfare and territoriality with the chimpanzee. But that's only one side of what we do. We also trade, we intermarry, we allow each other to travel through our territory. There's an enormous amount of cooperation.

As for myself, I was never against Russia.

Every nation must have some degree of military organization, even among the most peaceful peoples. The possession of armament however, no matter how necessary, breeds suspicion, fear, counter-armament and hate.

I am thus far a Quaker, that I would gladly agree with all the world to lay aside the use of arms, and settle matters by negotiation; but unless the whole will, the matter ends, and I take up my musket and thank heaven he has put it in my power.

The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.

I have always done my bit to improve Indo-Pak ties, but sometimes you say something, and it is interpreted the other way.

My standpoint is armed neutrality.

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

From the earliest wars of men to our last heart-breaking worldwide effort, all we could do was kill ourselves. Now we are able to kill the future.

War has its necessities...and I have always understood that. Always known the cost. But, this day, by my own hand, I have realized something else. War is not a natural state. It is an imposition, and a damned unhealthy one. With its rules, we willingly yield our humanity. Speak not of just causes, worthy goals. We are takers of life.

Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will.

We believe that peace is at hand.

Real peace is more than the absence of war; it is an absence of the causes of war.

Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.

MR.GOUDY: I believe you testified that you backed away from Aaron Wharton. MR.COGBURN: That is right. MR.GOUDY: You were backing away? MR.COGBURN: Yes sir. He had that ax raised. MR.GOUDY: Which direction were you going? MR.COGBURN: I always go backwards when I am backing up.

In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad

Wars are begun by frightened men. They fear war, but more than that, they fear what will happen if they don't start one or take equivalent action, I suppose.

As long as we can keep our international relations in the realm of conference rather than open conflict, we are giving truth more time to vindicate itself. And what we ourselves need is more faith in the power of truth.