The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of…

“The history of the last half century is accordingly in large measure a history of financial titans, whose methods were not scrutinized with too…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Have wisdom in your actions and faith in your merits.”

— Yogi Bhajan

Cuba has not accepted the domain and imposition of an empire that has wanted to dominate us for over half a century [America].

— Alejandro Castro Espin

Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances in the…

— Thomas Jefferson

A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months.

— Sophie Swetchine

Our rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our…

— Gore Vidal

I have had more than half a century of such happiness. A great deal of worry and sorrow, too, but never a worry or…

— Mary McLeod Bethune

My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century.

— Antonio Porchia

Perhaps the best testimony to the effectiveness of the reforms of 1852 is the fact, that men of a slightly later generation, familiar with…

— Edward Jenks

If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

— Dale Carnegie

One minute of patience, ten years of peace

— Greek Proverb

One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.

— Benito Mussolini

“It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.”

— Baudouin I King of Belgium

I wore the cloth of the nation for over 31 years in peace and war, from the Vietnam and Cold War eras, to Afghanistan…

— Joe Sestak

“The Intelligence Services of East and West have given Europe over fifty years of peace - the longest the Continent has ever known. They…

— Markus Wolf