Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.

Giving peace a chance only gives Saddam Hussein more time to prepare for war on his terms, at a time of his choosing, in pursuit of ambitions that will only grow as his power to achieve them grows.

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

There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.

You can’t have peace without a war.

To make peace, it is necessary to know how to make war.

Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.

War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.

Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable.

It has been claimed that the aim of the present war is to end war. But war cannot end war, neither can militarism destroy militarism.

Peace is impossible, war is improbable.

When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.

It is very important for I think those of us who desperately want peace, who see war as, at some level, a break-down, a manifestation of human weakness, to understand that sometimes it’s also necessary – and you know, to – to be able to balance two ideas at the same time; that we are constantly striving for peace, we are doubling up on our diplomacy, we are going to actively engage, we are going to try to see the world through other people’s eyes and not just our own.

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.

My fellow Americans, let us take that first step. Let us...step back from the shadow of war and seek out the way of peace. And if that journey is a thousand miles, or even more, let history record that we, in this land, at this time, took the first step.

The thing constantly overlooked by those hopefuls who talk about abolishing war is that it is by no means an evidence of decay but rather a proof of health and vigor.

When a nation issues ultimatums, it leaves no room for compromise and ensures that war will continue.

Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are those dedicated enough to humanity to find a way to avoid war

It is easier to make war than to make peace.

War is a curtain of dense black fabric across all the hopes and kindliness of mankind. Yet always it has let through some gleams of light, and not--I am not dreaming--it grows threadbare, and here and there and at a thousand points the light is breaking through.

Il est plus facile de faire la guerre que la paix. It is far easier to make war than to make peace.

I think all of us are agreed that war is probably man's greatest stupidity and I think peace is the dream that lives in the heart of everyone wherever he may be in the world, but unfortunately, unlike a family quarrel, it doesn't take two to make a war. It only takes one, unless the other one is prepared to surrender at the first hint of force.

General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out!

A smart soldier wants to know the causes of wars. Also how to end them. After all, war is the normal state of affairs, isn't it? Peace is the name of the ideal we deduce from the fact that there have been interludes between wars.

I think anything is better than war. The extent to which one can negotiate with fanatics, I have no idea. I don't know.