Rutherford B. Hayes Quotes

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

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

War is failure of diplomacy.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation. Bella suscipienda sunt ob eam causam, ut sine injuria in pace vivatur.

War is always an option. Peace is not.

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

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

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

A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea.

The people don’t want an armed peace.

We cannot go on fighting a war for small hills.

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

Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually, genuinely desiring peace.

I have lost count of how many wars I have actively and largely ineffectively tried to stop.

War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.

When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country.

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.

I am, on principle, opposed to war and in favor of peace because I regard peace as a positive good and war as a positive evil.

If I could cause world peace by taking someone out to lunch, I'd go, 'Well, war isn't that terrible.'

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

Though no one wants war, Congress needed to give the President the authority he needs to protect America while encouraging the use of diplomacy and negotiations to try and arrive at a peaceful solution to this problem.

I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war.