Thomas Jefferson Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.

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

[Peace] cannot be honorable or secure, if the sovereign betrays a pusillanimous aversion to war.

We are for peace, but we accept the challenge of the enemy. We will protect our motherland.

War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.

I want that there should be a belief, a faith in the possibility of removing mountains to the side of right. If we believe that war is wrong, as everyone must, then we ought to believe that by proper efforts on our part, it may be done away with.

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.

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

Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.

Peace is impossible, war is improbable.

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

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.

Because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course, continues, because the waging of war, by its nature, is total - but the waging of peace, by our own cowardice, is partial.

It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.

We have now to fight for peace with the same courage and deter-mination as we fought against aggression.

Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.

We protest solemnly in the face of mankind, that we desire peace at any sacrifice, save that of honor.

There are times for making war and times for making peace.

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.