Lindsey Graham Quotes

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 love peace, but not peace at any price.

To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill

Yoiu have to fight in order to live in peace.

Israel must win every single war that it fights. Our enemies only have to win one war.

What is our vision on this earth - war to the end of all generations and life by the sword?

If I could cause world peace by taking someone out to lunch, I'd go, 'Well, war isn't that terrible.'

Dialogue is the basis of Indian culture, and we don't want to make any enemies. Political and ideological adversaries, perhaps, but not enemies.

The idea that if people are just friendly and demonstrate they want peace, that will be answered with good will - that is really naive.

We want peace, but not at any price.

War is over if you want it.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

A world without war is not in the cards.

If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

I believe that democracies do not go to war; that's the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic Pakistan is the world community's best guarantee of stability in Asia.

Peace is not the absence of conflict. It is the ability to cope with conflict by peaceful means.

No doubt it requires two to fight. But both of them need not necessarily be fighters. It is, all the same, a fight, even if one goes on beating and the other gets beaten. There is no guarantee that others would behave properly with us even if we remain peaceful and cordial with them.

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

The aim of war now is not to defeat your enemy – that’s probably impossible – but to change the way he and his supporters think.

In this age there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war. We must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.

I am not—as I am sure I will be charged—for peace at any price, but for an honorable rational, and political solution to this [the Vietnam] war.

The alternative is not war or doing nothing. Whoever rejects war is not doomed to appeasement.

We had to avoid wounding Austria too severely; we had to avoid leaving behind in her any unnecessary bitterness of feeling or desire for revenge; we ought rather to reserve the possibility of becoming friends again with our adversary of the moment, and in any case to regard the Austrian state as a piece on the European chessboard and the renewal of friendly relations as a move open to us. If Austria were severely injured, she would become the ally of France and of every other opponent of ours; she would even sacrifice her anti-Russian interests for the sake of revenge on Prussia.