Chester A. Arthur Quotes

It is our duty to persuade the nations of the world, in whatever way that we can, to settle their differences in some other way. (Other than war)

The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.

The shortest way to peace is the most stupendous and unanimous preparation for war.

In this age there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war. We must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.

The progress and survival of civilization [are] dependent upon ... the realization ... of the utter futility of force as an arbiter.

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed; peace is preferable to war in almost every contingency. Arbitration is the true method of settlement of international as well as local or individual differences.

The alternative is not war or doing nothing. Whoever rejects war is not doomed to appeasement.

There is never a military solution to any problem.

It is our belief that nations should embrace dialogue and peaceful settlement of disputes instead of rushing to arms, for suffering and bloodshed will ensue.

Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction.

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.

War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.

It is highly probable that in most cases, war could be avoided or ended. For discussions allow passion to subside, and to persuade alienated neighbors, or at least one of them, to listen to the voice of a conciliator is a step in the direction of peace.

Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.

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

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.

In Turkey, we have lived almost everything that could be lived; war and torture... The war concept was consumed to its limits. But there is only one way we have not tried: negotiations, peace, and talking.

The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.

Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.

If the inner world is inundated with peace, then the nightmare of world war cannot even come into being.

The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.

I'm not a politician or a political expert, but I believe that there are many ways to look at peace.

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.