Ulysses S. Grant Quotes

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.

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

I have desired as sincerely as any man—I sometimes think more than any other man—that our present difficulties might be settled without the shedding of blood.

I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.

Violence is my last option.

I hate fights. I try to talk people out of fighting if I can and if they start I run away.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword.

It is our duty to persuade the nations of the world, in whatever way that we can, to settle their differences in some other way. (Other than war)

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed; peace is preferable to war in almost every contingency. Arbitration is the true method of settlement of international as well as local or individual differences.

Negotiations in pain and frustration for 5 years is better than bullets for 5 minutes.

I wish to see the discovery of a plan that would induce and oblige nations to settle their disputes without cutting one another's throats.

When somebody says, 'Oh, Buffy, you're such a warrior for peace', I stop them and say, 'No, I'm not really a warrior for peace. What I promote is alternative conflict resolution'.

History has proved that the most ardent enemies have settled their differences through talks and not war.

Mediation is one of the most effective tools of non-violence. It can turn parties away from conflict, towards compromise.

We have to start from the fact that there are always alternatives to violence.

We advised them to do what they think proper against the war.

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.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

I don't like to fight.

You have to give everybody another recourse as some means other than violence, no matter how distasteful it may be to have to deal with them and what they represent.

I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.

Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.

I can't really fight.