Vladimir Putin Quotes

The militiaman is best employed at his plough

I hope that the responsible figures in the Ukrainian leadership will not hinder soldiers in the Ukrainian army from putting down their weapons, if they aren't capable of taking that decision themselves and giving that order, then I hope that they won't prosecute people who want to save their lives and the lives of others.

It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.

I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late.

I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.

Let's see if we can't get this war behind us now. Certainly, the man in the street, the common person there, wants to have this war behind him. I think a lot of the soldiers are very war-weary too.

[Dwight Eisenhower is] a soldier who doesn't like or want war. It's like a whore who believes in chastity.

I was not afraid to make war. I am not afraid to make peace.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war.

I saw our bombs as political resources for peace.

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

We have been traveling through a cloud; the sky has been dark ever since the war began.… We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace. I want ... all these chiefs of the soldiers here to understand that we are for peace, and that we have made peace, that we may not be mistaken for enemies.

Peace without surrender.

In modern warfare the role of those who institute it is often far removed from the conflict on the ground … I could see welcoming a weapon that eliminated the decision makers while leaving the innocent unharmed.

When an army doesn't want to fight, you don't need much experience to win.

My court was divided between peace and war according to their various interests, but I considered only their reasons.

We must be capable of speaking a language of peace, but not one of surrender.

There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

I think the entire world knows, and North Korea knows, that if they used any weapons on our soldiers they would be obliterated. And it would be an overwhelming response.

Armies are a purely human invention. Most soldiers who go to war nowadays don't even do it because they're inherently aggressive.

I have never understood why the politicians who are most eager to send soldiers into harm's way are always depicted as their most ardent friends.

All wars would end immediately if the various chiefs of state dropped a little LSD.

I can't let it pass when you say: "You are the weak party." No, I am not the weak party. I am the man who is making the war. I am the man who is making the peace.

To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.