George W. Bush Quotes

Democracies are poor breeding grounds for terrorism and war.

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.

I renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in place of democracy, for the starvation that stalks after it. I renounce war, and never again, directly or indirectly, will I sanction or support another.

Nothing can justify war.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

I'm really interested in how conflicts arise and how they reach points of no return. I'm no pacifist. Sometimes force is necessary. But war is a choice.

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.

Whenever peace—conceived as the avoidance of war—has been the primary objective of a power or group of powers, the international system has been at the mercy of the most ruthless member of the international community.

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

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

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

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

I do not believe in terrorism, violence, destruction, murder, pre-emption, or War.

If you aren't please tell me how you are going to not have a war.

Peace is produced by war.

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.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer.

We make war that we may live in peace.

People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.