Narendra Modi Quotes

Only by decisions of national policy based upon accurate information can we have the chance that peace will endure.

He had rather spend 100,000 pounds on Embassies to keep or procure peace with dishonor, than 100,000 pounds on an army that would have forced peace with honor.

America remains the indispensable nation. There are times when America, and only America, can make a difference between war and peace, between freedom and repression.

The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty... Practical progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope.

While we shall never weary in the defense of freedom, neither shall we ever abandon the pursuit of peace.

You can't buy peace by just wishing it and avoiding the challenges that other nations present to you.

We go to war only to make peace. We never went to war with any other design. We carry the national conscience wherever we go.

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

Many hard comments have been made on my efforts in India from the side of the Congress party, yet I feel content in the deep conviction that the offer I traveled 22,000 miles to discuss with Indian leaders was a real contribution to a solution of our differences.

Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.

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

Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.

And also I assert our interest in respecting all our obligations and implementing all our commitments. And will save no effort whatever to protect this newborn opportunity of peace, that is provided through what we have already declared here today.

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

Reasonable, even intelligent people can, and frequently do, disagree on how best to achieve peace in the Middle East, but, peace must be the goal of our foreign policy tools, whether they be by the stick or by the carrot.

President Obama's record on national security is a tribute to his strength, and judgment, and to his preference for inclusion and partnership over partisanship.

Power alone is respected and ... in order to gain peace, the United States has no alternative but to wield it

Our foreign policy has been inspired by two simple principles: the determination to place France's interests above all others, and the conviction that France has no greater interest than that of peace.

The first responsibility of any President is to work for peace in the world and prosperity at home.

... the greatest moral victory in the history of civilization if it actually keeps out of a war.

If the world is to keep the peace, then we must keep the peace with dictatorships as well as popular governments.

We have to develop preventive diplomacy.

Peace and harmony with all nations is our sincere wish; but such being the lot of humanity that nations will not always reciprocate peaceable dispositions, it is our firm belief that effectual measures of defense will tend to inspire that national self-respect and confidence at home which is the unfailing source of respectability abroad, to check aggression and prevent war.

The Mutual Security Act was intended not to fight a war but to prevent a war.