Frank B. Kellogg Quotes

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.

I believe that in the end the abolition of war, the maintenance of world peace, the adjustment of international questions by pacific means will come through the force of public opinion, which controls nations and peoples.

It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

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.

Peacemaking and peacekeeping should run in parallel.

I have done all I can to prevent wars. All my life I've been dedicated to preventing just what has happened today.

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

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.

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.

Even a total and universal disarmament does not guarantee the maintenance of peace.

Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war.

The only foreign policy advice I heard from China was when they said to Sudan, 'Don't go back to war.' That's all they said. They didn't push anything else.

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.

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.

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

The question whether the long effort to put an end to war can succeed without another major convulsion challenges not only our minds but our sense of responsibility.

To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.

I am looking forward and I am hoping that I will be the catalyst that makes India and Pakistan live for peace forever.

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional powers that, while not preparing for armed conflict, do not fully trust one another.

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.