Peace Quotes

We make war that we may live in peace.

Aristotle

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

Jimmy Carter

I know of no more important subject to the peace of Europe and the world than the reasonable reduction of armaments, especially in Europe, and of naval armaments throughout the world.

Frank B. Kellogg

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

Thomas Paine

Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.

Lin Yutang

If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference,' you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.

Joseph Stalin

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Harry S. Truman

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

George Bernard Shaw

Peace does exist. It exists in your heart and soul.

Sharon Stone

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.

John Major

Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come - and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance.

Condoleezza Rice

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Peace is its own reward.

Mahatma Gandhi

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

Woody Allen

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Amelia Earhart

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

John Andrew Holmes