William Howe Quotes

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

If appeasing other nations means that we need to begin acting like them, you can count me out.

If you are going to make peace, you can't just meet nice people.

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.

By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail.

We want peace, but not at any price.

We will not have peace by afterthought.

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.

The conflict in the Middle East needs to be solved for the same reasons. It is necessary to reach a two-states solution, built on international law, for sustainable peace and development, and it can only be achieved through joint efforts by the international community.

War is what happens when language fails.

I hope that France - and all of Europe - we would take an initiative for the year 2012 to be the year of peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

Making peace is harder than making war.

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

We want peace and a political solution to the situation in Chechnya.

First and foremost - our vision for a united and peaceful Georgia is based on respect for the desire - and respect for the right - to South Ossetian autonomy.

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

Peace cannot be unilateral.

By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of the friends of America, everything stood on a new and more respectable footing, both with regard to the operations of war or negotiations with foreign powers.

In the Mediterranean you have a choice. Either you fight or you cooperate.

Peace is something that unfortunately cannot be made unilaterally.

For the sake of peace you have to accept risk.

Very significant. My mission is to pacify Ireland.

I will be very frank with you. I was the last to consent to separation; but the separation having been made, and having become inevitable, I have always said, as I say now, that I would be the first to meet the friendship of the United States as an independent power.

There is no such thing as a conflict that can’t be ended. Conflicts are started by human beings, sustained by human beings, and they can be ended by human beings.