Madeleine Albright Quotes

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

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

One can go to war alone, but you can't build peace alone.

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.

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 mission defines the coalition.

Leaders alone can rarely make peace. They have to bring people along.

Ultimately, peace depends on compromise.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.

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.

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

I still think it would be a great mistake to go into a war without support of our friends and allies.

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.

Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

To craftsmanship we shall add statesmanship in the capitol of peace.

To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.

We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not as some vague notion - as everyday work.

War may be made by one party, but it requires two to make peace.

We're not losing the peace.

My policy is trust—peace, and to put aside the bayonet

You help us pay for the war we’ll fight; we’ll launch it while you’re asleep at night. We don’t need friends all around the world; We’ll buy our friends with our flag unfurled, And spread our arms on a global scale To show the world that we still prevail. Oh, we’re not leaders inspiring peace, But we’re in power as the world’s police. So pay your tax for our little war, And we’ll not ask for any more. This year!

Peace is something that unfortunately cannot be made unilaterally.

After four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war, … justice, humanity, liberty and the public welfare demand … a cessation of hostilities …