Peace Quotes

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

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

George S. Patton

Europe is spreading its wings. In freedom. In prosperity. And in peace. It is a truly proud moment for the European Union. It is a triumph for liberty and democracy. To our new members I say: ? Warmly welcome to our family?. Our new Europe is born.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen, (Prime Minister of Denmark) Family photo after the European Council meeting in Copenhagen, 13 December 20

The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings.

George W. Bush, Inaugural address, 2001

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

Martin Luthe

Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?

Hermocrates of Syracuse

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self - Satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

John Wooden

Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

U Thant

We will not have peace by afterthought.

Norman Cousins

A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.

Sir James Glove

This is the true nature of home - - It is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division.

John Ruskin

In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war, we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

Pope John XXIII

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

Ronald Reagan

The vote on the Peacekeeper is also a vote on Geneva. Rejecting the Peacekeeper will knock the legs out from under the negotiating table. On importance of the MX missile.

Ronald Reagan

We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

William Gladstone

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

George Orwell, (attributed)

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

Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness. A sincere love of peace is no excuse for muddling hundreds of millions of humble folk into total war. The cheers of the weak, well - Meaning assemblies soon cease to count. Doom marches on.

Sir Winston Churchill, March 1936, demanding British re - Armament

I took a speed - Reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

Woody Allen

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

John F. Kennedy, In a speech at the White House, 1962

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

William Shakespeare

People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

Under peaceful conditions the militant man attacks himself.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

Henry Kissinge

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

Marvin Gaye

We need peacemakers, not peacekeepers.

Paul Liu

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

Dorothy Thompson

And the work of righteousness shall be peace and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.

Bible

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

Desiderius Erasmus

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 Eisenhowe

Indecision regarding the choice among pleasures temporarily robs a man of inner peace. After due reflection, he attains joy by turning away from the lower pleasures and seeking the higher ones.

I Ching

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

John Russell

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and co - Operation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.

Gersonides

We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe