Edward Gibbon Quotes

Peace is far more preferable to war. [...] I believe that peace is the only path to true security. [...] And there is no question that the only path to peace is through negotiations .

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. And now, as in no other age, we seek it because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.

We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities.

Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

Peace is not everything, but without peace, everything is nothing.

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.

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

War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!

We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.

All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action.

We have now to fight for peace with the same courage and deter-mination as we fought against aggression.

Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.

It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself.

I don't think there's any way that war can have a place in peace. I think that peace is the active and difficult resistance to the temptation of war; it is the prerogative and the obligation of the injured. Peace is something that has to be vigilantly maintained; it is a vigilance, and it involves temptation, and it does not mean we as human beings are not aggressive. This is a mistaken way of understanding non-violence.

Even in waging war, cherish the spirit of peace-maker; that, by conquering those whom you attack, you may lead them back to the advantages of peace.

There are times for making war and times for making peace.

For we no longer take up "sword against nation," nor do we "learn war any more," having become children of peace, for the sake of Jesus, who is our leader.

We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.

Peace is our goal but preparedness is the price we must pay.

Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.

I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. I realize the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war... But we have no more urgent task.

We seek no wider war.