Peace Quotes
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Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.
William E. Gladstone
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Peace with all the world is my sincere wish. I am sure it is our true policy, and am persuaded it is the ardent desire of the government.
George Washington
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And now leave me in peace for a bit! I don't want to answer a string of questions while I am eating. I want to think!" "Good Heavens!" said Pippin. "At breakfast?
J. R. R. Tolkien
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I would like people to remember that I kept the peace when I was president and I worked for peace, that I espoused human rights in its broadest definition, not only freedom of speech but freedom of assembly, freedom of worship and trial by jury but also the right of people for people to have a decent home to live, food to eat, employment, healthcare, self respect, dignity. So I think the broad gamut of human rights, peace and freedom. I would like to be remembered for those things to the degree that I deserve it and I still have a long way to go.
Jimmy Carter
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Peace begins with a smile.
Mother Teresa
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The big powers are traveling on the dangerous road of armament. The signpost just ahead of us is 'Oblivion.' Can the march on this road be stopped? Yes, if public opinion uses the power it now has.
Sean MacBride
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The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.
Hugo Black
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War only in the ring. Peace on earth
Wanderlei Silva
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Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you.
Catherine Doherty
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Now I see Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.
John Milton
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The English peace is the peace of the grave.
Mahatma Gandhi
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We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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It goes without saying that the stability of the Middle East is the foundation for peace and prosperity for the world, and of course for Japan. Should we leave terrorism or weapons of mass destruction to spread in this region, the loss imparted upon the international community would be immeasurable.
Shinzo Abe
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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.
Ann Radcliffe
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There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
Leon Trotsky
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Peace is not just the absence of mass destruction, but a positive internal and external condition in which people are free so that they can grow to their full potential.
Petra Kelly
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Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace... we just need to declare it.
John Lennon The Beatles
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Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
Neil Armstrong
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Our bridge to the future must include bridges to other nations, because we remain the world's indispensable nation to advance prosperity, peace and freedom and to keep our own children safe from the dangers of terror and weapons of mass destruction.
Bill Clinton
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It seems to be that loneliness is a small price to pay for peace and quiet.
Bart Yates
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Peace is the wait of the patient soul.
Candace Wheeler
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Nothing fairer than peace is given to man to know; Better one peace than countless triumphs.
Silius Italicus
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It is our duty to ensure we have a peace worth fighting for.
Chris Bradford
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And while I ate muffins—things I had never been able even to look at in London, but now swallowed with complacence,—and Pincher sat in front of me watching every mouthful, just as though he hadn’t had an enormous dinner a few minutes before, and the cat, finished with Knobbie’s ears, deftly turned her over and began tidying her stomach, I did feel that my feet were set once more in the path of peace, and that all I had to do was to continue steadily along it.
Elizabeth von Arnim