Adlai Stevenson I Quotes

We will not have peace by afterthought.

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

The making of peace is a continuing process that must go on from day to day, from year to year, so long as our civilization shall last.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

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

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

If you are going to make peace, you can't just meet nice people.

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

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

There are many of us who should be in a position to bring peace to the world.

If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

There is no such thing as a conflict that can’t be ended. Conflicts are started by human beings, sustained by human beings, and they can be ended by human beings.

Believe me, it is much harder to make peace than war.

You don't make peace with your friends. That's the bottom line. You end conflicts by trying to find some political resolution.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

You don't make peace with your friends. You make peace with your enemies.

When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

Sharon is capable of making peace.

In our quest for peace, we should constantly ask ourselves what we should do to create conditions in which peace can prosper.

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

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

War is what happens when language fails.

Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.