Peace Quotes

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. Eisenhowe

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

Malcolm X

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

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and 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

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

Martin Luther King Jr., "Strength to Love".

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Albert Schweitze

If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness.

Theodore Roosevelt

Peace visits not the guilty mind.

Juvenal

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

William Shakespeare

Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.

Lord Essex

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.

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

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

John Andrew Holmes

The deepest American dream is not the hunger for money or fame it is the dream of settling down, in peace and freedom and cooperation, in the promised land.

Scott Russell Sanders

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

We Americans want peace, and it is now evident that we must be prepared to demand it. For other peoples have wanted peace, and the peace they received was the peace of death.

Rev. Francis J. Spellman, Archbishop of New York. 22 September, 1940

If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.

Aldous Huxley

We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fourth Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1945

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.

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

Joseph Conrad

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

George Orwell, (attributed)

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Victor Hugo

Peace visits not the guilty mind. Nemo Malus Felix.

Juvenal

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

John Russell

One path alone leads to a life of peace: The path of virtue.

Juvenal

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting.

Alan John Percivale Taylo

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Buddha

Working in the garden... gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.

Ruth Stout

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

Marvin Gaye

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know peace.

Jimi Hendrix

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

George Santayana

You can not gain peace by avoiding life.

Virginia Woolf

He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.

Benjamin Franklin

The fidelity of the United States to security treaties is not just an empty matter. It is a pillar of peace in the world.

David Dean Rusk

Why cross an ocean when you can cross a river Why should we sail to Washington when we can meet right away 10 miles from here On Middle East peace initiative.

Shimon Peres

With malice toward none, with charity for all, ... let us strive on to finish the work we are in, ... to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1865