Peace Quotes
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. On the Vietnam Wa.Richard Milhous Nixon
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 peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.William Shakespeare
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
Are these perilous times? They are. But we can have peace in our hearts and in our homes.Gordon B. Hinkley, Speech given in October 2001
Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you.Catherine de Hueck Doherty, O Magazine, October 2002
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.Lord William Beveridge
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
The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.Cicero
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
Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best.Napoleon Hill
If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you and may posterity forget that ye were once our countrymen.Samuel Adams
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.
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
If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.George C. Marshall
On his deathbed Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuse are for all - - The soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.Mark Twain
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
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.Albert Schweitze
Love as Thought is Truth. Love as Action is Right Conduct. Love as Understanding is Peace. Love as Feeling is Non - Violence.Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Let tears flow of their own accord their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.Seneca
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.Gersonides
I define joy as a sustained sense of well - Being and internal peace - A connection to what matters.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.Pope John XXIII
The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.Nikita Khrushchev
Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.Peter Minard
For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.Larry Eisenberg
I took a speed - Reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.Woody Allen
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
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
People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.Dwight D Eisenhowe
Peace may cost as much as war, but it is a better buy.Author Unknown
For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom. For the uncontrolled there is no concentration, and for him without concentration, there is no peace. And for the unpeaceful how can there ever be happiness?Unknown, The Bhagavad Gita
Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.John Andrew Holmes
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.John F. Kennedy, In a speech at the White House, 1962
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.John F. Kennedy
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
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.Desiderius Erasmus
