Margaret Thatcher Quotes

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.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. The very prevention of war requires more faith, courage and resolution than are needed to prepare for war. We must all do our share, that we may be equal to the task of peace.

Today the real test of America's power and wisdom is not our capacity to make war but our capacity to prevent it. Prevention must be our overriding objective. It can be done. Surrendering to the inevitability of combat only paves the way for its occurring.

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.

One of the most persistent ambiguities that we face is that everybody talks about peace as a goal. However, it does not take sharpest-eyed sophistication to discern that while everbody talks about peace, peace has become practically nobody's business among the power-wielders. Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.

Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.

The best missile defense system of all would be a just and lasting peace.

It is not only war that can stop war but men of goodwill, conscious of their mission can deal with such deadly enemy.

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

the issue of war or peace is an issue that concerns not only experts on Foreign Affairs but every citizen of the United States.

Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are those dedicated enough to humanity to find a way to avoid war

I want to be the peace president.

When people go at war they cheapen things.

A smart soldier wants to know the causes of wars. Also how to end them. After all, war is the normal state of affairs, isn't it? Peace is the name of the ideal we deduce from the fact that there have been interludes between wars.

Militarists say that to gain peace we must prepare for war. I think we get what we prepare for. If we want a world where peace is valued, we must teach ourselves to believe that peace is not a ‘utopian vision’ but a real responsibility that must be worked for each and every day in small and large ways. Any one of us can contribute to building a world where peace and justice prevail.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.

Peace is hard, but we know that it is possible

We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war.

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

Whenever you have a possibility of going in two ways, either for peace or for war, for peaceful methods of for military methods, in the present age there is a strong prejudice for the peaceful ones. War seldom ever leads to good results.

No more war, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind.

The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice.

Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.