Chuck Hagel Quotes

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

You don't kill your way to peace.

Ultimately, peace depends on compromise.

Peace must be more than the absence of war.

People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.

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

I'm not a politician or a political expert, but I believe that there are many ways to look at peace.

There is an alternative to war. It has been with us forever.

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.

We go about peace in a very belligerent way, don't we.

But the real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

Weapons do not make peace; men make peace.

Peace hath her victories no less renowned than war.

Peace is hard, but we know that it is possible

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

Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.

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

Peace is produced by war.

Peace is something very dear. If you've been through wars and operations and battles, you want peace.

Peace and not war is the father of all things.

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.

We want peace, but not at any price.

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.

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.