Quotes on Peace Not War

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.

War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.

War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.

An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

Let us examine our attitude toward peace itself. Too many of us think it is impossible. Too many think it unreal. But that is a dangerous, defeatist belief. It leads to the conclusion that war is inevitable, that mankind is doomed, that we are gripped by forces we cannot control. We need not accept that view. Our problems are manmade; therefore they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as be wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.