Mitt Romney Quotes

We are trying to prevent a third world war.

Democracies don't war; democracies are peaceful countries.

We are naturally reluctant as a peace-loving people to reach out to far-away conflicts but, as we know, this conflict has been reaching out to us for months now.

The biggest difference would be made if we don't have wars to begin with.

If people had gavels, there would be no wars. If every person in the world had a gavel and could bang it and get everyone's attention right away and make their displeasure known, I believe the level of actual violence in the world would just disappear to practically nothing.

Peace is hard work and we must not allow people to forget it.

Every war is its own excuse. That's why they're all surrounded with ideals. That's why they're all crusades.

All wars are sacred to those who have to fight them. If the people who started wars didn't make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight?

I spent a lot of time when I was president, trying to end wars, prevent killing, and promote understanding. What I have seen is that peace works better than conflict, and one of the best manifestations of it is in travel and tourism.

The world cannot live at peace without the United Nations. For this reason: it creates a reasonable guarantee that all this change in the world, these tremendous political and economic developments, can be channelized, kept orderly. The United Nations is a mold that keeps the hot metal from spilling over.

The only way to end war is communication between people.

This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.

When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.

I thought, between sports and news and television and friendship, that you could end the Cold War and, by God, we did.

There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.

Unless we establish some form of world government, it will not be possible for us to avert a World War III in the future.

Good presidents, people like George Bush, they SEND people to war. They don't bring them a rescue. This is America. We rescue insurance companies and banks.

I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.

There are plenty of reasons for hope. There need be no war with Russia, and those who would fight her now, on the theory that we had better do it and get it over with, are lightheaded promoters of world destruction.

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

India wants to avoid a war at all costs but it is not a one-sided affair, you cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

In short, Roberto privately concluded, if you would avoid wars, never make treaties of peace.

It is my belief that whereas the twentieth century has been a century of war and untold suffering, the twenty-first century should be one of peace and dialogue. As the continued advances in information technology make our world a truly global village, I believe there will come a time when war and armed conflict will be considered an outdated and obsolete method of settling differences among nations and communities.

When we speak of peace, we should not mean just the absence of war. True peace rests on the pillars of individual freedom, human rights, national self-determination, and respect for the rule of law.

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.