Thomas Hobbes Quotes

One should not maintain a dispute.

The price of peace is eternal vigilance.

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.

There has not been a war in South America for fifty years, and I have every confidence that the countries of Central and South America are deeply in earnest in the maintenance of peace.

For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.

The Romans never allowed a trouble spot to remain simply to avoid going to war over it, because they knew that wars don't just go away, they are only postponed to someone else's advantage

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war

Wars are most often won by those who have made the greatest effort to prevent them.

The English buy peace rather than make it.

A certain degree of preparation for war ... affords also the best security for the continuance of peace.

Peacemaking and peacekeeping should run in parallel.

It would win for us a proud title—we would become the first aggressors for peace.

Deterrence is to prevent war, not to win a war.

it's a disgrace for the international community that we have allowed so many conflicts to become frozen, and we are not making a serious effort to solve them.

It is entirely clear that there is only one way in which great wars can be permanently prevented, and that is the establishment of an international government with a monopoly of serious armed force.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.

To my mind, what we ought to have maintained from the beginning was the strictest neutrality. If we had done this, I do not believe we would have been on the verge of war at the present time.

The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.

Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

Even a total and universal disarmament does not guarantee the maintenance of peace.

Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war.