Peace Quotes
Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war.Dan Quayle, remarks at Arlington National Cemetery
To secure peace is to prepare for war.Carl von Clausewitz
Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way.Julius K. Nyerere
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death!Patrick Henry
All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.Albert Einstein
Let him who desires peace prepare for war.Flavius Vegetius Renatus
The more you sweat during peace, The less you bleed during war.Brian Wilson
I felt that I had done my duty. Nothing drove me now. I had run out of causes and was as close as I might ever be to peace. With all this behind me, I felt that if I had to die now, it was all right. I would not protest quite so loudly as I would have at any other time.Roger Zelazny, The Courts of Chaos
Peace and blessings manifest with every lesson learned - And if your knowledge were your wealth then it would be well earned.Erykah Badu, A line from the song "On & On".
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.Johann von Goethe
Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.Austin Farra
Please choose the way of peace. ... In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.Mother Teresa, - - Letter to U. S. President George Bush and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, January 1991.
Under peaceful conditions the militant man attacks himself.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ, 1420
I took a speed - Reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.Woody Allen
He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.Benjamin Franklin
Modern war has decimated many a country; but it has always spawned millions of bureaucrats. They fatten on shortages and thrive on trouble. Peace can never offer such opportunities for exercising petty tyrannies, using red tape to regiment the individual and making life generally unpleasant.Paul Tabori, _The Natural Science of Stupidity_. (New York: ChiltonCompany, 1960), p. 104.
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.George Orwell, (attributed)
Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing - Peace is the measure.George Melton
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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 Fitzgerald Kennedy
That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience or to prevent the people of the United states who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms...Samuel Adams
We must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means.Martin Luther King, Jr.
One of these days, the people are going to demand peace of the government, and the government is going to have to give it to them.Dwight Eisenhowe
There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.Elisabeth Kubler - Ross
No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace - - In peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.Croesus of Lydia
Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?Hermocrates of Syracuse
We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies.George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004
The absence of war is not peace.Harry S Truman
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.Buddha
Find peace in where and what you are.Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce The cuckoo clock.Orson Welles
Out of the strain of the Doing, Into the peace of the Done.Julia Louise Woodruff
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me There is nothing between.Mother Theresa
Do not judge men by mere appearances for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.E. H. Chapin
We do not deny the possibility of peaceful political transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.Fidel Castro, Speech given in January 1963, calling for communist revolution in Latin America
