Quotes About Diplomacy

The purpose of all wars is peace.

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.

Thank goodness we don't live in medieval times, when people fought wars over ideas.

Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.

I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile.

Our primary objective must be to prevent wars, and when we fail in this, we must protect and assist the innocent victims.

I want a world of peace. I'm not interested in bombs. I'm not interested in wars. I'm interested in peace.

The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.

Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.

Wars can be resolved. Human rights atrocities can be stopped. We just have to apply the right policies.

Capitalism saved the world, and there is even a heretical theory now, moving up from the level of individuals to countries: countries that trade more and have more open economies are less likely to fight wars and less likely to have genocides.

Our shared historical experiences led myself and Mitterrand to the decision that we must do everything to prevent further wars.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.

War is no picnic. Wars should be prevented, and if you can't prevent them, you have to put them off.

Peace is something very dear. If you've been through wars and operations and battles, you want peace.

The most important thing to me with any politician is that they don't start wars, but education is a big part of that, too, because educated people are less likely to do stupid, violent things.

No one has hit the FARC harder than I. But all wars have to end at some point, and that requires a negotiated solution.

We need to restart political processes to end wars.

If the world is disarmed, and remains disarmed, there will be no more world wars.

I think that war is diplomacy by other means, for sure, and there have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons. There are wars that have had to be fought, and there will probably continue to be.

Politicians do not enter into wars lightly. It is usually the military themselves who are keener to become involved.