“When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.”
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“Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war.”
“He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.”
“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.”
“Making peace is harder than making war.”
“What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.”
“I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late.”
“Peace is produced by war.”
“Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.”
“Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.”
“We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.”
“A bad peace is even worse than war.”
“Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.”
“I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.”
“Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.”
“Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.”
“The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically.”
“Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.”
“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.”
“Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace.”
“It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted.”
“Let him who desires peace prepare for war.”
“We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.”
“He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.”