Peace Quotes

"I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

"I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

"As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible"

Richard M. Nixon, President

"It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war"

John F. Kennedy, President

"Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures"

John F. Kennedy, President

"Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace"

John F. Kennedy, President

"The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just"

John F. Kennedy, President

"Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace"

Benito Mussolini, Politician

"War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace"

Benito Mussolini, Politician

"Lord, Bless our enemies; have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land"

William Pennington, Politician

"In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet"

Bill Cosby, Comedian

"The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned"

Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat

"If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions"

Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat

"Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions"

Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat

"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading"

Thomas Hardy, Novelist

"I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace"

Helen Keller, Author

"An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry"

George Eliot, Author

"Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner"

Nelson Mandela, Statesman

"If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"You cannot find peace by avoiding life"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"We love peace, but not peace at any price"

Douglas William Jerrold, Dramatist

"You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil"

John Ruskin, Writer

"After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace"

Buddha, Leader

"To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him"

Buddha, Leader

"Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things"

Adam Smith, Economist

"We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God"

Thomas Merton, Author

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