Erma Bombeck Quotes

At the beginning of this century, people never questioned the effectiveness of war, never thought there could be real peace. Now, people are tired of war and see it as ineffective in solving anything.

We are living in a time of many wars. The call for peace must be shouted. Peace sometimes gives the impression of being quiet, but it is never quiet. Peace if always proactive and dynamic.

Resort to force in the Great War (I) failed to bring tranquillity. Victory and defeat alike were sterile. That lesson the world should have learned.

My fellow Americans, let us take that first step. Let us...step back from the shadow of war and seek out the way of peace. And if that journey is a thousand miles, or even more, let history record that we, in this land, at this time, took the first step.

Giving peace a chance only gives Saddam Hussein more time to prepare for war on his terms, at a time of his choosing, in pursuit of ambitions that will only grow as his power to achieve them grows.

We can achieve much more in peace than we can ever achieve in these needless, unconstitutional, undeclared wars.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

I fought for peace in the fifties.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

War is failure of diplomacy.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

We have practiced diplomacy since the very beginning of the nation. Sometimes it has not worked, and we've had to go to war. I always believe you should try to find peace and reconciliation before conflict. That has been the approach I've taken.

When I was defense minister, I was very popular, and now that I'm president, I'm unpopular because I'm trying to make peace. It's much easier to make war and get trophies.

It is a conviction that war is not an answer to human conflict any more than cannibalism is an answer to human hunger.

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.

I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.

We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.

War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.

Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, “What kind of peace?

Of course war is horrible, but at present it's still the only guarantee of peace.

Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the next one.

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

It has been claimed that the aim of the present war is to end war. But war cannot end war, neither can militarism destroy militarism.

We must conquer war or war will conquer us.

Whenever you have a possibility of going in two ways, either for peace or for war, for peaceful methods of for military methods, in the present age there is a strong prejudice for the peaceful ones. War seldom ever leads to good results.