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Quotes About Resolution

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
Yet war doesn't end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
~ Chris Cleave
So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.
~ Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
We still seek no wider war.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
We can achieve much more in peace than we can ever achieve in these needless, unconstitutional, undeclared wars.
~ Ron Paul
I don't know if anyone ever 'wins' a war.
~ Irene Hunt
If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.
~ Scilla Elworthy
I am sure that you will never end war with wars.
~ Nancy Astor
I always stood for the elimination of conflict and wars, and any of those causes that ignite them.
~ Cat Stevens
For war there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive.
~ Joseph Heller
Old men declare war because they have failed to solve complex political and economic problems.
~ Art Hoppe
There are laws for peace as well as war.
~ Livy
Peace is obtained by war.
~ Cornelius Nepos
Though I never ordered it, and never wished for it, I have never shed any tears over the event, because I believe that it hastened what we all fought for, the end of the war.
~ William Tecumseh Sherman
Nothing is lost by peace; everything may be lost by war.
~ Pope Pius XII
Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent.
~ William Shakespeare
The class war is over.
~ Tony Blair
The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come.
~ Boris Trajkovski
Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?
~ Leslie Parrish
Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.
~ William C. Kirby
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