Max Lucado Quotes

And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.

This may not be a just peace, but it is more just than the continuation of war.

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

I'm interested in conflict and confrontation.

It is far easier to make war than peace.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

War is failure of diplomacy.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

War is the work of men, and being the work of men, is not inevitable.

It is easier to lead men to combat and stir up their passions than to temper them and urge them to the patient labors of peace.

It is much more difficult to make peace than it is to make war.

There is no alternative to peace. There is no sense to go to war.

You can’t have peace without a war.

Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet filled; and unless we can return a little more to first principles, and act a little more upon patriotic ground, I do not know when it will-or-what may be the issue of the contest. Speculation-peculation-engrossing-forestalling-with all their concomitants, afford too many melancholy proofs of the decay of public virtue; and too glaring instances of its being the interest and desire of too many, who would wish to be thought friends, to continue the war.

War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.

You'll get more from being a peacemaker than a warrior.

I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.

If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would have been ended before this.

Many Syrians understand that the only option that exists is the option of peace, which means the option of compromise, .. Nobody can have 100 percent of his desires. He must compromise.

What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight.

We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all.