Golda Meir Quotes

Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions, as to terms of intercourse, are again upon you…

Wars: You know how you start, but you never know how you end.

My attitude toward the war [WWI] was that it must be won at all costs.

In this age there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war. We must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.

Are there not other alternatives than sending our armies to chew barbed wire in Flanders. No doubt several hundred thousand men will be spent to satisfy the military mind in the point.

Peace" is when nobody's shooting. A "just peace" is when our side gets what it wants.

At least eighty thousand of our sons are dead or mangled. A million more will die of poverty and disease. Every issue could have been settled and better settled without the loss of a drop of blood

An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war.

I have desired as sincerely as any man—I sometimes think more than any other man—that our present difficulties might be settled without the shedding of blood.

"Peace" is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve page-one, lead-story prominence-unless that civilian is a close relative of one of the casualties. But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it.

There are laws for peace as well as war.

If I could cause world peace by taking someone out to lunch, I'd go, 'Well, war isn't that terrible.'

We seek no wider war.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

As someone who has seen war first hand, and as a father of three young adults, it was my hope that we could have resolved this conflict and disarmed Saddam Hussein without war. However, this was not the case.

We want peace, but not at any price.

We make war that we may live in peace.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

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

The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.

I would willingly give fifty thousand crowns to be able to say that I took Paris without costing the life of one single man.

We must take the profit out of war.