Winston Churchill Quotes

I fought for peace in the fifties.

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict.

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

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

Peace and security for the United States depend on building principled, constructive, clear-eyed relations with our former great-power adversaries.

A stable world may be one in which the United States can act to secure peace without fear of a nuclear attack.

Anybody who says it is in America's interest to not have better relations with Russia doesn't know what they're talking about when it comes to geopolitics.

I was born in 1962, and it seems that throughout my entire life the world has demanded peace but maintained conflict.

They [Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz] will never give peace a chance because they are saying the moment they are elected, the first thing they will do is to rip up the agreement that allowed $150 billion of Iranian money to be returned to them. They don't want this agreement and that will surely lead to war.

Some of [Donald Trump] comments can be interpreted as potentially reducing the threat of nuclear war. The major threat right now is right on the Russian border. Notice, not the Mexican border, the Russian border. And it's serious. He has made various statements moving towards reducing the tensions, accommodating Russian concerns and so on.

I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.

For the Kremlin, it is more feasible to preserve its great-power status in cooperation with the United States than in confrontation.

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.

The advance guard in the campaign for peace that America wages today must be the State Department.

There's a tendency on the part of Americans, all of us, to say, 'Hey, the Cold War is over, the Soviet Union is gone, we don't have to worry about these guys again.' We always have to be worried about them, we always have to be concerned about them, and we have to be well-informed.

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.

Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

The core of detente [with Russia] is the reduction in arms.

War is but an instrument of international policy.

The main aim of any American President is to prevent World War III.

He had rather spend 100,000 pounds on Embassies to keep or procure peace with dishonor, than 100,000 pounds on an army that would have forced peace with honor.