Jimmy Carter Quotes

There are consequences if you act militarily, and there's big consequences if you don't act.

Old men declare war because they have failed to solve complex political and economic problems.

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

People who start wars never know exactly how they will turn out.

Nations like individuals, when driven to choose between desperate courses, might at times be compelled to take the chance of destruction, often destroying themselves or suffering irreparable harm.

When I was defense minister, I was very popular, and now that I'm president, I'm unpopular because I'm trying to make peace. It's much easier to make war and get trophies.

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.

We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.

Those who make war against the United States have chosen their own destruction.

Bonaparte's wish is Peace, nay that he is afraid of war to the last degree.

Resort to force in the Great War (I) failed to bring tranquillity. Victory and defeat alike were sterile. That lesson the world should have learned.

Now that Obama is at war in a 3rd country, does that mean he has to give back his Nobel Peace Prize?

Guns don't win wars; guns and bombs may kill a man but they cannot make him follow their lead, nor will they ever coerce an unyielding man to yield.

We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all.

I grow more and more suspicious of the political powers that take men away from their work and set them shooting one another.

A wicked tyrant is better than a wicked war.

There is no working middle course in wartime.

As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure.

Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war.

If you think I would have gone to war the way George Bush did, don't vote for me.

All wars would end immediately if the various chiefs of state dropped a little LSD.

Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.

The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

Dying in a a war never stopped wars from happening.

The military's job is to win the war. A president's job is to win the peace.