Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

You can’t have peace without a war.

Peace is impossible, war is improbable.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

We desire peace. But peace is a goal, not a policy. Lasting peace is what we hope for at the end of our journey. It doesn't describe the steps we must take nor the paths we should follow to reach that goal.

Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.

We have agreed that peace can be achieved with the removal of the occupation and the end of aggression.

Peace is never a perfect achievement.

War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.

Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, “What kind of peace?

Peace is not something you wish for, it's something you make

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

All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.

I, serial number 30743, Lieutenant General in reserves Yitzhak Rabin, a soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces and in the army of peace, I, who have sent armies into fire and soldiers to their death, say today: We sail onto a war which has no casualties, no wounded, no blood nor suffering. It is the only war which is a pleasure to participate in - the war for peace.

He who relies solely on warlike measures shall be exterminated; he who relies solely on peaceful measures shall perish.

There come times when we have to fight for peace.

Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.

Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.

Peace needs and takes time, it needs and takes caution, it needs and takes patience after 30 years of terrorism and violence.

Peace is a question of will. All conflicts can be settled, and there are no excuses for allowing them to become eternal.

At the beginning of this century, people never questioned the effectiveness of war, never thought there could be real peace. Now, people are tired of war and see it as ineffective in solving anything.

No man should think that peace comes easily. Peace does not come by merely wanting it, or shouting for it, or marching down Main Street for it. Peace is built brick by brick, mortared by the stubborn effort and the total energy and imagination of able and dedicated men. And it is built in the living faith that, in the end, man can and will master his own destiny.

We are living in a time of many wars. The call for peace must be shouted. Peace sometimes gives the impression of being quiet, but it is never quiet. Peace if always proactive and dynamic.

Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable.

I want that there should be a belief, a faith in the possibility of removing mountains to the side of right. If we believe that war is wrong, as everyone must, then we ought to believe that by proper efforts on our part, it may be done away with.

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