Jean Chretien Quotes

A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all.

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.

Ultimately, peace depends on compromise.

Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate.

We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

Peace with the Palestinians will open ports of peace all around the Mediterranean. The duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly, even in the face of hostility, in the face of doubt and disappointment. Just imagine what could be.

In Turkey, we have lived almost everything that could be lived; war and torture... The war concept was consumed to its limits. But there is only one way we have not tried: negotiations, peace, and talking.

It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.

Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.

I'm not a politician or a political expert, but I believe that there are many ways to look at peace.

Peace comes through dealing with people. Peace doesn't come at the end of a bayonet or the end of a gun.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

I believe in peace-building in any kind of platform, be it a political platform like Parliament or negotiations like peace-building negotiations.

Costa Rica believes in building bridges, in looking for solutions to problems, and not clinging to positions.

With the help of dedicated Americans from our party, every party, and no party at all, I intend to mount that stairway to preach peace for our nation and world.

War may be made by one party, but it requires two to make peace.

We're not losing the peace.

Jaw jaw is better than war war.

They put aside the talk of peace and instead acted for peace.

In the Mediterranean you have a choice. Either you fight or you cooperate.

Peace is something that unfortunately cannot be made unilaterally.

Surely diplomacy is needed when there is conflict, not when there is harmony.

Stop the fighting and find the middle ground.