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Quotes About Negotiation

The power of making war often prevents it, and in our case would give efficacy to our desire of peace.
~ Thomas Jefferson
After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.
~ Salman Rushdie
War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.
~ Chief Joseph
So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.
~ Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
Arms control is by definition a rejection of disarmament.
~ David T. Dellinger
As General Eisenhower discovered, it is easier to end the Cold War or stamp out poverty than to master this devilish pastime.
~ James Reston, Jr.
We still seek no wider war.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
Peace proposals unaccompanied by a sworn covenant indicate a plot.
~ Sun Tzu
A political war can be fought from anywhere.
~ Benazir Bhutto
I am sure that you will never end war with wars.
~ Nancy Astor
For war there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive.
~ Joseph Heller
There are laws for peace as well as war.
~ Livy
Peace is obtained by war.
~ Cornelius Nepos
Nothing is lost by peace; everything may be lost by war.
~ Pope Pius XII
You want to prevent war, you talk, talk, but you also have to back it up with actions.
~ Steve Scalise
No military timetable should compel war when a successful outcome, namely a disarmed Iraq may be feasible without war, for example by allowing more time to the UN inspectors.
~ Douglas Hurd
You do not get peace by shouting: Peace. Peace is a meaningless word; what we need is a glorious peace.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
We can remind the world that all the dead on both sides have not settled our differences, so now it is time for the living to renounce violence as a means of solving this conflict.
~ Letty Cottin Pogrebin
We are trying to prevent a third world war.
~ Harry S. Truman
The 20th century was the century of war and blood. The 21st century is the century of dialogue.
~ Dalai Lama
I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect an early success.
~ William Tecumseh Sherman
War to me is the stupidest way of settling anything. The whole damn thing goes to pieces.
~ Frank Capra
Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace
~ Thomas Jefferson
Peace is preferable to war. But it's not an absolute value, and so we always ask, "What kind of peace?
~ Noam Chomsky