Elizabeth II Quotes

Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.

The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty... Practical progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope.

Those good at war aren't good at peace, and those good at peace aren't good at war.

We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.

Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

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

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.

Peace is never a perfect achievement.

War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.

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

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.

War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!

We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace.

Peace is impossible, war is improbable.

One of the most persistent ambiguities that we face is that everybody talks about peace as a goal. However, it does not take sharpest-eyed sophistication to discern that while everbody talks about peace, peace has become practically nobody's business among the power-wielders. Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.

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.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities.

All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action.

It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself.

One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat

Even in waging war, cherish the spirit of peace-maker; that, by conquering those whom you attack, you may lead them back to the advantages of peace.

All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.