Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

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

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

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.

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

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

I was part of a government that tried to resolve the question of Kosovo by war. Perhaps there is some justice that today I should be the person most responsible for finding a peaceful solution.

Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.

Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile.

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.

It is not every cause of war that should lead to war.

Peacemaking and peacekeeping should run in parallel.

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

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.

We have to get it into our heads once and for all that we cannot settle disputes by eliminating human beings.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

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.

I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

Peace is a question of will. All conflicts can be settled, and there are no excuses for allowing them to become eternal.

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

We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.