John F. Kennedy Quotes

You can’t have peace without a war.

While we shall never weary in the defense of freedom, neither shall we ever abandon the pursuit of peace.

We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace.

We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.

We go to war only to make peace. We never went to war with any other design. We carry the national conscience wherever we go.

Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are those dedicated enough to humanity to find a way to avoid war

I have to believe in the possibility of peace, because the alternative is to accept the inevitability of continual war, and of always living in fear. It doesn't have to be that way. However, there are no simple solutions, and I am not the possessor of a magic formula for peace. All I can say is that for peace to succeed it requires perseverance, patience, humility, compromise, and commitment, from all parties.

Il est plus facile de faire la guerre que la paix. It is far easier to make war than to make peace.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. The very prevention of war requires more faith, courage and resolution than are needed to prepare for war. We must all do our share, that we may be equal to the task of peace.

I think anything is better than war. The extent to which one can negotiate with fanatics, I have no idea. I don't know.

Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.

Real peace is more than the absence of war; it is an absence of the causes of war.

We will not let the price of peace be greater than the price of war, we will firmly safeguard the achievements of the past 13 years under former President Karzai.

We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.

To many, peace is what enables development and is critical in providing opportunities to young people. To some - especially those from regions involved in conflict - peacekeeping and efforts to preserve peace are absolutely vital in bringing prosperity and hope for the future.

Anyone who believes that the eternal question of war and peace in Europe is no longer there risks being deeply mistaken.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

I am thus far a Quaker, that I would gladly agree with all the world to lay aside the use of arms, and settle matters by negotiation; but unless the whole will, the matter ends, and I take up my musket and thank heaven he has put it in my power.

If you can secure peace, you may be cursed by a lot of hotheads but … you will be blessed in Europe and by future generations

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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.

If you don't want war, then you had better be an advocate for diplomacy with muscle.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. And now, as in no other age, we seek it because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.

Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.

Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is available power to enforce it.