Peace Quotes
If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness.Theodore Roosevelt
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 enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.George Santayana
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
But all who humble themselves before the Lord shall be given every blessing and shall have wonderful peace.Psalm 3711 TLB Bible
Ed, we just witnessed a peaceful transition in government. Do you realize how miraculous that is... Today, tiny Cicely, Alaska, stood up and put another W in the win category for democracy.Jeff Melvoin
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
I took a speed - Reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.Woody Allen
Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.Lord Essex
And the work of righteousness shall be peace and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.Bible
The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.Pope John XXIII
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.John F. Kennedy
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.Woodrow Wilson
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.Albert Schweitze
To be at peace with ourselves we need to know ourselves.Caitlin Matthews
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
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me There is nothing between.Mother Theresa
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
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.Albert Einstein
All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.Albert Einstein
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.Jimi Hendrix
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
There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war.Albert Einstein
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and co - Operation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way.Julius K. Nyerere
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
Let him who desires peace prepare for war.Flavius Vegetius Renatus
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.Amelia Earhart, Courage, 1927
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.Buddha
The more you sweat during peace, The less you bleed during war.Brian Wilson
On that day let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that all their efforts shall not have been in vain.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not. knows no release from little things.Amelia Earhart Putnam
Europe is spreading its wings. In freedom. In prosperity. And in peace. It is a truly proud moment for the European Union. It is a triumph for liberty and democracy. To our new members I say: ? Warmly welcome to our family?. Our new Europe is born.Anders Fogh Rasmussen, (Prime Minister of Denmark) Family photo after the European Council meeting in Copenhagen, 13 December 20
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
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.Andr Gide
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
Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war.Dan Quayle, remarks at Arlington National Cemetery
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
