Jon Stewart Quotes

I certainly don't like a label that suggests I believe that the military is the solution to most of the world's problems.

To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction.

We all know that in war the political and military factors have to complement each other.

It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.

I was one of the first people in the Palestinian world, in the late 1970s, to say that there is no military option, either for us or for them, and I'm certainly the only well-known Arab who writes these things - and who writes exactly the same things in the Arab press that I say here.

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat.

The most important thing that certainly the United States and other Asian and Pacific actors have done is to urge that whatever happens, however the dispute is resolved, that it be resolved peacefully.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

I don't think we should ever be at war. That's kind of naive, I suppose.

Who wants to be a war President? I don’t. But this is what came our way.

There is never a military solution to any problem.

All States do not have the same interests, but are there any interests which cannot be infinitely better reconciled before than after a war?

We will extend to the opponents of force the material resources of this nation.

Conflicts between nations will continue to arise. The real issue is whether they are to be resolved by force, or by resort to peaceful methods and procedures, administered by impartial institutions.

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Is a military solution the only way to stop nations from doing bad things?

For many years I have known a good deal about international arbitrations and I have never known of one in which both nations in controversy did not benefit more from having the question between them settled than either gained from a favorable judgment or lost by an unfavorable one.

Military action without political context is ineffective.

There are no military solutions - dialogue and diplomacy are the only guarantee of lasting peace.

Diplomacy is important, extremely important, and I don't think these reductions at the State Department are appropriate because many times diplomacy is a lot more effective - and cert cheaper - than military engagement.

I believe in peace through strength.