John Bright Quotes

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

First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.

Let the natural process of war among nations smother the weak.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

So long as war exists on earth there will be some danger that even the Nation which most ardently desires peace may be drawn into war.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.”

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.

War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

I think that war is diplomacy by other means, for sure, and there have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons. There are wars that have had to be fought, and there will probably continue to be.

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

Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations.

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.

Moreover, if the territorial state is to continue as the last word in the development of society, then war is inevitable.

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.

I’m not opposed to all wars; just dumb wars.

I know you Americans want a war but I'm not going to let you have it.

As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.

It makes no difference who says that our objective is peace, even if he be the President of the United States. Our actions speak louder than words, and our actions in Asia today are the actions of warmaking.

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 sometimes is a necessary instrument to bring clarity to a society.

Anybody who has experienced war will never want to do it again unless they have to. But if we’re going to do it, we have to be damn good at it.