Thornton Wilder Quotes

You can’t have peace without a war.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. And now, as in no other age, we seek it because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.

I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.

We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace.

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

Our choice is not between war and peace but between life with dignity or without

I think the most challenging thing for me in my life and in the Bible is that we worship Jesus as the Prince of Peace. And America is constantly at war.

Peace is our goal but preparedness is the price we must pay.

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

Arms alone are not enough to keep the peace. It must be kept by men.

Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.

We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.

When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

To Perpetual Peace

At the beginning of this century, people never questioned the effectiveness of war, never thought there could be real peace. Now, people are tired of war and see it as ineffective in solving anything.

We are for peace, but we accept the challenge of the enemy. We will protect our motherland.

Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.

Peace is not everything, but without peace, everything is nothing.

Peace, development, and justice are all connected to each other. We cannot talk about economic development without talking about peace. How can we expect economic development in a battlefield?

We must shift the arms race into a 'peace race'.

There is no man, and no place, without war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.

We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.

One of the primary necessities of the world for the maintenance of peace is the elimination of the frictions which arise from competitive armament.

War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.