Peace Quotes

9841 Peace quotes by 3934 unique authors

In order to persuade Britain to pack up, to compel her to make peace, it was essential to rob her of her hope of being… — Adolf Hitler
The true objective of war is peace. — Sun Tzu
Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain with death - the… — Douglas MacArthur
We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We… — Douglas MacArthur
There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history's clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that… — Douglas MacArthur
The equipment and weaponry will continually change and improve, and the size of the military will expand as needed, decreasing during times of peace. But… — George W. Dunaway
There has been considerable comment over the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a soldier. I am afraid this does not seem as remarkable… — George C. Marshall
There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war, it's to be prepared for peace. — Ronald Reagan
Asking ourselves, 'Where am I right now?' gives us a chance to step outside the internal dialogue for a moment of peace. Look around you,… — Unknown Author
The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight. — A J P Taylor
O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name. — Alexander Pope
If a war be undertaken...before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is… — Charles Eliot Norton
You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable. — Condoleezza Rice
Peace will be realized only by forging bonds of trust between people at the deepest level, in the depths of their very lives. — Daisaku Ikeda
War creates peace like hate creates love. — Unknown Author
Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace. — Jeane Kirkpatrick
We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn't it time that we should take risks to secure peace? — Ramsay MacDonald
History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents.... A lasting order cannot be… — Ludwig von Mises
Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. — Ludwig von Mises
Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism. — Ludwig von Mises
The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda… — Michael Parenti
You lose nothing through peace. You can lose everything through war. — Pope Pius XII
If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another. — Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
Democracy is not an incident that happens overnight, nor a gift that America can give to the world. It is a culture which needs peace… — Shirin Ebadi

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