Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes

The only foreign policy advice I heard from China was when they said to Sudan, 'Don't go back to war.' That's all they said. They didn't push anything else.

Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.

Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.

The most expensive peace is far less costly than the cheapest war.

War, which remains an anomaly in a civilized world, has taken on so devastating and universal a character...that every thought and every effort should be aimed, above all, at making it impossible.

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.

Anyone who believes that the eternal question of war and peace in Europe is no longer there risks being deeply mistaken.

Peacemaking and peacekeeping should run in parallel.

Although war cannot be ended, wars can.

Since the foolish part of mankind will make wars, from time to time, with each other, not having sense enough otherwise to settle their differences, it certainly becomes the wiser part, who cannot prevent these wars, to alleviate as much as possible the calamities attending them.

We will prevent war, whatever it takes.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.

Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.

I am, on principle, opposed to war and in favor of peace because I regard peace as a positive good and war as a positive evil.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war.

We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.

I'm not an expert on the Middle East or terrorism or the use of military force or politics. It's all I can do to know a little bit about how to help people raise their kids and what to do when they get sick. When a war happens, I just hope it gets over with quickly so that how we take care of children becomes more important again.

The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.

We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan.

We must take the profit out of war.

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.

There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.