Theodore C. Sorensen Quotes

The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly lighter burden.

I, serial number 30743, Lieutenant General in reserves Yitzhak Rabin, a soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces and in the army of peace, I, who have sent armies into fire and soldiers to their death, say today: We sail onto a war which has no casualties, no wounded, no blood nor suffering. It is the only war which is a pleasure to participate in - the war for peace.

He thinks Goliath can end the war," Alek managed at last. "The man wants peace!" "As do we all," Count Volger said. "But there are many ways to end a war. Some are more peaceful than others.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

I think the day you start building the war plan is the day you start beginning the postwar plan.

He that makes a good war makes a good peace.

We need a Peace Department in our national government to do extensive research on peaceful ways of resolving conflicts. Then we can ask other countries to create similar departments.

We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.

It is not a process of bargaining or give-and-take. The peace process is not about giving concessions. We will not allow any step which would hurt the memories of our martyrs.

Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, “What kind of peace?

There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent.

Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.

It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are notnecessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.

My fellow Americans, let us take that first step. Let us...step back from the shadow of war and seek out the way of peace. And if that journey is a thousand miles, or even more, let history record that we, in this land, at this time, took the first step.

No triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumphs of war.

We desire peace. But peace is a goal, not a policy. Lasting peace is what we hope for at the end of our journey. It doesn't describe the steps we must take nor the paths we should follow to reach that goal.

Peace does not come through prayer, we human beings must create peace.

There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.

Peace, ... is crucial, because my government aims to hasten Mindanao's development by transforming it into the country's food basket.

Peace does not come just because we wish for it. Peace must be fought for. It must be built stone by stone.

Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.

WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.

You measure peace with guns, progress in megatons. Who's left when the war is won?

For war there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive.

The problems of peace are greater than the problems of war.