Warren R. Austin Quotes

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

And when the war is done and youth stone dead I'd toddle safely home and die—in bed.

Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better.

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.

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

We love peace, but not peace at any price.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

When I was a young man, I was poor. In a war with other nations, I was in eighty-seven fights. There I received my name and was made Chief of my nation. But now I am old and am for peace.

In war, everything changes. You are very selective of what you do because everything you do can be the last thing you do in your life.

I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price.

Old men make wars that young men may die.

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.

Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.

If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace.

When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.

I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

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.

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.

A bad peace is even worse than war.