Peace Quotes
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things Knows not the livid loneliness of fear.Amelia Earhart
In times of tumult and discord bad men have the most power mental and moral excellence require peace and quiteness.Publius Cornelius Tacitus
To be feared is to fear no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.Seneca
It is essential to know that to be a happy person, a happy family, a happy society, it is very crucial to have a good heart, that is very crucial. World peach must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence but the manifestation of human compassion.Dalai Lama, (in exile) Associated Press, 5/14/01
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.George Orwell, (attributed)
Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.Dwight D Eisenhowe
Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test.... Peace comes through hope.James E. Faust
He was then in his fifty - Fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.G. C. Lichtenberg
I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.William Shakespeare
Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end.Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Arcana Coelestia" #8455
Once a man has some money, peace begins to sound good to him.Clint Eastwood, Movie: "A Fistful of Dollars, " 1964
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
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
We need peacemakers, not peacekeepers.Paul Liu
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
Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.Calvin Coolidge
Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.John Andrew Holmes
We will not have peace by afterthought.Norman Cousins
Rest in peace. The mistake shall not be repeated.Cenotaph in Hiroshima
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
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
Compassion and love are not mere luxuries. As the source of both inner and external peace, they are fundamental to the continued survival of our species.Dalai Lama, The Times (1999)
But then peace, peace I am so mistrustful of it so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.D. H. Lawrence
Let him who desires peace prepare for war.Flavius Vegetius Renatus
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.John F. Kennedy
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 more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.Nikita Khrushchev
People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.Dwight D Eisenhowe
If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness.Theodore Roosevelt
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
Deep experience is never peaceful.Henry James
The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.Pope John XXIII
For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations.George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004
A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.Sir James Glove
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
Imagine there? s no countries, it isn? t hard to do; nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace.John Lennon, Imagine
American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
