“Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.” FirstsWarNextLeftPeaceBreakTraditionConferencesGood Sense Author:William Glasser
“I was standing next to a famed geo-politician when the first news of the Argentine attack [on the Faulkland Islands] was received, and heard him muse incredulously: "An old-fashioned naval battle. A war between two civilized nations, perhaps with even a declaration of war, and later a peace conference. Wow." No hostages, no nukes, no ideologies, no religious fanaticism; just a fair-and-square war over national interests - hard to believe, in this day and age.” FirstsBelieveTwoWarHardAgeNextNationsPeaceInterestReligiousHeardPoliticianBattleNewsFairsStandingIdeologyIslandsCivilizedThis DaySquaresWowMuseDeclarationOld FashionedConferencesFanaticismHostageHard To BelieveNavalNational InterestsNukesCivilized NationsDeclaration Of War Author:William Safire
“The peace conference must not adjourn without the establishment of some ordered system of international government, backed by power enough to give authority to its decrees.Unless a league something like this results at our peace conference, we shall merely drop back into armed hostility and international anarchy. The war will have been fought in vain.” GivingHas BeensWarEnoughGovernmentPeaceResultsAuthorityRelationInternationalVainLeagueAnarchyEstablishmentConferencesHostilityInternational RelationsDecree Author:Virginia Gildersleeve
“If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference,' you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.” IfsGovernmentOrderPeaceMinistersAirplaneConferences Author:Joseph Stalin
“Nonviolence is really tough. You don't practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines.” HumanityPeaceLinesPracticeToughNonviolenceConferences Author:Cesar Chavez