Joseph Stalin Quotes

For WAR, consisteth not in Battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to content by Battle is sufficiently known.... So the nature of War, consisteth not in actual fighting; but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary. All other time is PEACE.

Peace with a cudgel in hand is war.

There’s no reason to respect anyone’s word in that part of the world. The only thing they respect is force and the threat of force.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.”

We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.

Those who make war against the United States have chosen their own destruction.

Appeasement only makes the aggressor more aggressive.

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.

If a nation wants to live in peace with its neighbors, it doesn't keep rattling the saber at them.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.

If you aren't please tell me how you are going to not have a war.

It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war.

It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to call it American self-interest.

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.

No man could know whether war might not at any moment break out.

If we must fight, then by God we will fight. And I hope they [the Croats and Bosnians] will not be so crazy as to fight against us. Because if we don’t know how to work well or to do business, at least we know how to fight well.

Whenever peace—conceived as the avoidance of war—has been the primary objective of a power or group of powers, the international system has been at the mercy of the most ruthless member of the international community.

I have never met anyone who wasn't against war. Even Hitler and Mussolini were, according to themselves.

I have fought for peace for many years. I want to see all the nations of the world reduce their armaments. Mr. Chamberlain has suggested it, but I have seen no acquiescence on the part of Mr. Hitler. Have you? Who is taking a belligerent attitude in the world today? The American people can not afford to consider this as a partisan question and use it as such, and the women, above all, must think clearly on this subject for the future of those whom they love may depend upon their influence.

If you seek peace, we do not want War. But if you want War, we will accept it unhesitatingly.

Politics is pacific war.

War may well be the worst way imaginable to create larger, more peaceful societies, but the depressing fact is that it is pretty much the only way.