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We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era - a permanent state of what I call violent peace.

Until we have created a romance of peace that would equal that of war, violence will not disappear from people's lives.

Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace.

In the course of my lifetime, that world went from violence to a kind of peace.

The decline of violence isn't a steady inclined plane from an original state of maximal and universal bloodshed. Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.