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Peace Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt
- A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.
- No nation can be really great unless it is great in peace, in industry, integrity, honesty. Skilled intelligence in civic affairs and industrial enterprises alike;…
- We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who…
- Every expansion of civilization makes for peace. In other words, every expansion of a great civilized power means a victory for law, order, and righteousness.…
- Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of…
- There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations;…
- We wish peace, but we wish the peace of justice, the peace of righteousness. We wish it because we think it is right and not…
- If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at the hazard of…
- Love of peace is common among weak, short-sighted, timid, and lazy persons; and on the other hand courage is found among many men of evil…
- The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
- Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
- To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.
- Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
- The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
- Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
- If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman;…
- Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is…
- The great body of our citizens shoot less as times goes on. We should encourage rifle practice among schoolboys, and indeed among all classes, as…
- If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.
- Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.
- Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihoodthe virtues that made America. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price,…
- War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious…
- A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace
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