Harold MacMillan Quotes

Jaw jaw is better than war war.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

If you aren't please tell me how you are going to not have a war.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

In Turkey, we have lived almost everything that could be lived; war and torture... The war concept was consumed to its limits. But there is only one way we have not tried: negotiations, peace, and talking.

The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.

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

We're not losing the peace.

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

The fact that talk may be boring or turgid or uninspiring should not cause us to forget the fact that it is preferable to war.

There is never a military solution to any problem.

There is no such thing as a conflict that cannot be ended.

Conflict resolution cannot be merely about eliminating all opposition or reducing the choices in negotiating the problem to two mutually exclusive sets of rights and wrongs. Rather, it must consist of laboring to bring everybody to accept reality and then to project a future with this understanding as the foundation.

Negotiations in pain and frustration for 5 years is better than bullets for 5 minutes.

We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.

It is highly probable that in most cases, war could be avoided or ended. For discussions allow passion to subside, and to persuade alienated neighbors, or at least one of them, to listen to the voice of a conciliator is a step in the direction of peace.

Peace is produced by war.

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

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

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.

But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer.

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

I learned firsthand that there would simply be no wars if people engaged in real conversation.

War is what happens when language fails.

We call upon all sides to stop hostilities and restart peace talks.