Bill Clinton Quotes

I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they will sit back hoping for peace if any nation uses force or the threat of force to acquire dominion over other peoples and other governments.

If the United States were attacked by rockets from one of our neighboring countries, we would be a lot tougher on them than Israel has been on the Palestinians. When we were attacked, we sent an army abroad and took over Afghanistan from the Taliban.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

Nations have the tendency to be born in blood.

We are much in the position of those who love peace so much that they are ready to fight for it.

Peace, above all things, is to be desired. but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

Borders most often result from wars or peace treaties that end wars.

No more bloody wars, no more bloody medals

No more wars, no more bloodshed, and no more threats.

The war shall give us our land. The concept of "ours" and "not ours" are peace concepts only, they lose their meaning during war.

To win the War, to overcome the enemy upon the fields cannot alone ensure the Victory in Peace. The cause of War must be removed. Each Nation's rights must be secure from violation. Above all, from the human mind must be erased all thoughts of War as a solution. Then and then only will War cease.

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

If I could cause world peace by taking someone out to lunch, I'd go, 'Well, war isn't that terrible.'

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.

I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.

Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.

In some ways, Israel has achieved a peace. There are fewer rockets being sent into Sderot, there are no rockets to speak of from the North, there has been very little terrorism from the West Bank. It's a kind of peace. I hope for a better and more enduring peace. Peace is not an endgame; we will never be completely at peace.

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

We make war that we may live in peace.

It is far easier to make war than peace.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.