Peace Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

This is a time for action — not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

We will never have peace without friendship around the world.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I cannot believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war and no one will win the next.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

On the whole our armed services have been doing pretty well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope our…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

An economic policy which does not consider the well-being of all will not serve the purposes of peace and the growth of…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want...…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I kept praying that I might be able to prevent a repetition of this stupidity called war. I have tried to keep…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Basically we could not have peace, or an atmosphere in which peace could grow, unless we recognized the rights of individual human…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I have never believed that war settled anything satisfactorily, but I am not entirely sure that some times there are certain situations…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. "Love thy neighbor…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

First of my own personal requirements is inner calm. This, I think, is an essential. One of the secrets of using your…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I think it is impossible for one human being really to know another without first knowing and being at peace with himself.

— Eleanor Roosevelt