Francis P. Matthews Quotes

We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.

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

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually, genuinely desiring peace.

Whenever you have a possibility of going in two ways, either for peace or for war, for peaceful methods of for military methods, in the present age there is a strong prejudice for the peaceful ones. War seldom ever leads to good results.

Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. Does that seem paradoxical? Well, war is not afraid of paradoxes.

But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

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.

There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.

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

How can modern life, with its overpowering proportion of industrial activity and its infinitesimal proportion of military, keep alive the instincts associated with war as against those developed by peace?

[Dwight Eisenhower is] a soldier who doesn't like or want war. It's like a whore who believes in chastity.

The priest promotes war, and the soldier peace.

The world must not reward aggression.

We shall never war except for peace.

Thinking about the war now and the occupation later is not an acceptable solution.

I make an earnest appeal to those who hold responsible positions both in this country and abroad to weigh their words very carefully before they utter them on this matter, bearing in mind the consequences that may flow from some rash or thoughtless phrase. By exercising caution and patience and self-restraint we may yet be able to save the peace of Europe.

I have desired as sincerely as any man—I sometimes think more than any other man—that our present difficulties might be settled without the shedding of blood.

Those good at war aren't good at peace, and those good at peace aren't good at war.

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

All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action.

It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself.

We do not want to destroy any people. It is precisely because we have been advocating coexistence that we have shed so much blood.

You can't talk about peace nor agreement while terror is used as the main argument.