Pope John Paul II Quotes

We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.

Two great and terrible truths of war are these: War is easy to enter into, but difficult to end. And ultimately, in war there are no winners.

War settles nothing.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

War never accomplishes anything. It's never going to look good in the history books. People are never going to look back and think, 'He started a lot of wars; what a great leader he was!' That's not the way it works. God knows how many more of these things we're going to need before it starts to sink in.

Wars the United States starts do not necessarily end when and how it wants them to.

I have never believed that war settled anything satisfactorily, but I am not entirely sure that some times there are certain situations in the world such as we have in actuality when a country is worse off when it does not go to war for its principles than if it went to war.

I think when war becomes your life, I think it's very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.

You need to think, when you get involved in wars, how you're going to get out of them.

When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.

As a Korean War Veteran, I know too well the troubling nature of war. This is why I will always support a diplomatic answer before military intervention.

War is failure of diplomacy.

It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out.

I certainly don't like a label that suggests I believe that the military is the solution to most of the world's problems.

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

Sure we won the war, but the peace we’re losing badly.

It is simply not true that war never settles anything.

The possibility of the United States winning the war and losing the peace is real and serious

It’s damn easy to get into a war, but damned harder to extricate yourself once you get in.

Wars are seldom won as quickly as everyone expects, and almost always create far more problems than they solve

I've traveled with Jack Murtha to Iraq three times to learn more about the region, talk with our diplomats and military leaders, and meet with our troops. Those visits are the main reason that I opposed the War in Iraq since its inception.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

I was part of a government that tried to resolve the question of Kosovo by war. Perhaps there is some justice that today I should be the person most responsible for finding a peaceful solution.

I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.