Ahmed Ben Bella Quotes

We want peace and development in all 10 states of South Sudan - we don't want military backing.

Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all.

Peace is important for Israel.

In some ways, Israel has achieved a peace. There are fewer rockets being sent into Sderot, there are no rockets to speak of from the North, there has been very little terrorism from the West Bank. It's a kind of peace. I hope for a better and more enduring peace. Peace is not an endgame; we will never be completely at peace.

Liberating Iraq from a legacy of violence and putting it on the path to peace and prosperity will take time.

We have won the war. Now we have to win the peace, and it may be more difficult.

If you can secure peace, you may be cursed by a lot of hotheads but … you will be blessed in Europe and by future generations

When you've won the war, you're faced with the problem of winning the peace.

Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country.

Democracies are poor breeding grounds for terrorism and war.

Peace must be more than the absence of war.

Don't worry about Yemen. Yemen started in peace, and it will end its revolution in peace, and it will start its new civil state with peace.

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.

Peace is something very dear. If you've been through wars and operations and battles, you want peace.

It's not just the war itself. It's what you do after the war and what structure you put in place and how you make that structure work.

Without peace and without the overwhelming majority of people that believe in peace defending it, working for it, believing in it, security can never really be a reality.

Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery.

To the citizens of Israel, I say: we have passed difficult years, faced the most painful experiences and overcame them. The future lies before us. We are required to take difficult and controversial steps, but we must not miss the opportunity to try to achieve what we have wished for, for so many years: security, tranquillity and peace.

Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.

We in Israel certainly have a great interest in seeing peace, stability, and security restored to Egypt. We want nothing more than peace for the Egyptian people. We're not going to get involved in how Egypt, how the Egyptians should run themselves. That's an internal Egyptian affair.

To many, peace is what enables development and is critical in providing opportunities to young people. To some - especially those from regions involved in conflict - peacekeeping and efforts to preserve peace are absolutely vital in bringing prosperity and hope for the future.

President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan's capacity to secure and govern itself.