Marco Rubio Quotes

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

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.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.

Our country has never started a war. Our sole objective is deterrence, the strength and capability it takes to prevent war.

There has never been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented. The common man is the greatest protection against war.

Wars are most often won by those who have made the greatest effort to prevent them.

… in a tense situation, if time could be given for everyone to discuss what was going on before they actually went to war, we might come to our senses. Most of us are taught as children to count to 30 before we open our mouths when we were angry, and that same lesson should apply to nations.

It is entirely clear that there is only one way in which great wars can be permanently prevented, and that is the establishment of an international government with a monopoly of serious armed force.

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I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.

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.

You have to decide in advance whether you're ready go to war. If you guys are ready to send a million troops into Ukraine and fight World War III, you're going to do it without my support because I think that's a really foolish notion.

War should always be the absolute last resort.

the issue of war or peace is an issue that concerns not only experts on Foreign Affairs but every citizen of the United States.

The one thing I don't understand is war.

It may be that for a long time some nations will continue to fight each other, but the example of those nations who prefer arbitration to war, law courts to the battlefield, must sooner or later influence the belligerent powers and make war as unpopular as pugilism is now.

Nobody welcomes a war - not if they're smart. But war finds everyone sooner or later. It's inevitable.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. The very prevention of war requires more faith, courage and resolution than are needed to prepare for war. We must all do our share, that we may be equal to the task of peace.

I think that one can seek a way to eliminate war, and still agree that fighting the Nazis was a good thing.

All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war.