Antiwar Quote by Thomas Jefferson

The power of making war often prevents it, and in our case would give efficacy to our desire of peace.

— Anonymous

Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war.

— Raul Castro

The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.

— George C. Marshall

For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.

— Owen Arthur

The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it.

— Max Lerner

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

War can protect; it cannot create.

— Alfred North Whitehead

“You cannot prevent a war by starting a war.”

— Carroll Bryant

The cause of war is preparation for war.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.

— John Randolph

One cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war

— Albert Einstein

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

— Chief Joseph