Peace Quotes

• For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.

  Irving Babbitt

• Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

• I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.

  Georges Clemenceau

• 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. Eisenhower

• Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

  Geraldine Ferraro

• Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

  Benjamin Franklin

• He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

  Benjamin Franklin

• It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

  Thomas Fuller

• An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

  Mohandas Gandhi

• Peace is its own reward.

  Mohandas Gandhi

• It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

  Andre Gide

• The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

  Dag Hammarskjold

• Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

  William Hazlitt

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

  John Andrew Holmes

• Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

  Thomas Jefferson

• It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

  John F. Kennedy

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

  John F. Kennedy

• People always make war when they say they love peace.

  David Herbert Lawrence

• A people free to choose will always choose peace.

  Ronald Reagan

• Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

  George Bernard Shaw

• Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

  Baruch Spinoza

• Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.

  Muhammad Ali

• We make war that we may live in peace.

  Aristotle

• If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

• One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.

  David Borenstein

• Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

• War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

  H. L. Mencken

• It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

• A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

  William Shakespeare

• If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

  Mother Teresa

• Peace begins with a smile.

  Mother Teresa

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