George W. Bush Quotes

There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.

We must strive to restrain the destructive force of war, while recognizing its inexorable necessities

If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies.

Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.

Nothing can justify war.

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.

I think war should be illegal.

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.

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.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

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.

We believe in peace, but we are not pacifists. Sometimes we have to use force

Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation. Bella suscipienda sunt ob eam causam, ut sine injuria in pace vivatur.

Those who make war unjustly shall perish

…against the simple act of violence, words, moral indignation and world opinion are not enough.

We're not trying to start a war; we're trying to send a political message.

Yoiu have to fight in order to live in peace.