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Peace Quotes by James Madison
- How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of…
- Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty ought to have it ever before his eyes that…
- How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of…
- It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute.
- A universal peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary philosophers,…
- In no part of the Constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to…
- The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are…
- The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times…
- The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venal love of fame, are all in conspiracy…
- Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.
- A people armed and free, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition and is a bulwark for the nation against foreign invasion and domestic…
More Peace Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale