“War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.”
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“Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.”
“Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war.”
“You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.”
“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.”
“I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.”
“No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.”
“There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.”
“I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.”
“Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.”
“To secure peace is to prepare for war.”
“Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.”
“An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.”
“Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.”
“War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.”
“As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.”
“Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.”
“For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.”
“The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.”
“We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.”
“Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.”
“War makes thieves and peace hangs them.”
“I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.”
“In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.”