People do not make wars governments do.

No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

Peace is not achieved by controlling nations, but by mastering our thoughts.

In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by the balance of power.

The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

If you like war, be a nationalist. If you like peace, be a citizen of the world.

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.

War remains the decisive human failure.

You don't liberate a country standing on the soil of another.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

The military doesn't start wars. Politicians start wars.

Preventive war is like committing suicide for fear of death.

It's a pity both sides can't lose.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.