Samuel Dexter Quotes

Anything is better than a fruitless, hopeless, unnatural civil war.

Peace: A period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

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

Nothing is better than peace, by which all warfare of heavenly and earthly foes is brought to naught.

Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

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

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.

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.

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

I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.

A bad peace is even worse than war.

We've got to win this battle, and we will. We have to win the peace.

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

Peace is obtained by war.

Jaw jaw is better than war war.

Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions, as to terms of intercourse, are again upon you…

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

The difficulties of peace are better than the agony of war

Peace is better than a place in history.

Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.

There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boisterous battle, with pennants waving and cannon roaring, before there can be peaceful treaties and enthusiastic shaking of hands.

Peace without surrender.

Europe is a world where men have decided to die together because they are unable to find a way to live together

I know nobody believes in peace anymore, but what else is there to work toward? As the years have gone by, peace seems like more and more of an impossibility.