Peace Quotes - page 4

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. (Robert A. Heinlein)
Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading. View quote
Thomas Hardy
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. View quote
Petrarch
Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces! View quote
Georg Büchner
If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace. View quote
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil. View quote
John Ruskin
To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury in the Art of Peace. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
There are laws for peace as well as war. View quote
Livy
It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling. View quote
Pierre Bayle
To plunder, butcher, steal, these things they misname empire: they make a desolation and they call it peace. (Tacitus)
War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace. View quote
Benito Mussolini
When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there. View quote
George Harrison
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace. View quote
Gaston Bachelard
I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender. View quote
Abba Eban
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquillity of a political convention. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
War makes thieves and peace hangs them. View quote
George Herbert
There is no way to peace; peace is the way. View quote
A. J. Muste
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. (William Beveridge)
Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace. View quote
Ulysses S. Grant
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