Quotes About Compromise

You lose nothing through peace. You can lose everything through war.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war.

Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.

Put an end to so great an evil and arrive at a peace settlement whatever the outcome, and whatever the conditions.

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.

So in all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging.

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Gen. Tommy Franks told me the war was being compromised as specialized personnel and equipment were being shifted from Afghanistan to prepare for the war in Iraq - a war more than a year away.

Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.

A bad peace is even worse than war.

I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.

If we don't manage to find not just a compromise but a lasting peace agreement, we know perfectly well what the scenario will be. It has a name, it's called war.

Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue.

Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils.

Peace is produced by war.

As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure.

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting.

I prefer the hardest terms of peace to the most just war.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

A wall is a hell of a lot better than a war.