Quotes on Peace

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.

Peace and rest at length have come,_x000D_ _x000D_ All the day's long toil is past;_x000D_ _x000D_ And each heart is whispering, "Home,_x000D_ _x000D_ Home at last!"

There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.

The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

You will have peace to the extent that you have God, and the further you are away from God the less you will be at peace... Thus you may measure your progress with God by measuring your peace or the lack of it.

The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.

You cannot perceive beauty but with a serene mind.

The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.

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 oppression.

Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

It is my conviction that nothing enduring _x000D_ _x000D_ can be built on violence. _x000D_ _x000D_ The only safe way to overcome an enemy _x000D_ _x000D_ is to make of that enemy a friend.

Mark! Where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it-peace!

God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

There is no road towards peace; peace is the road

Mankind needs peace more than ever, for our entire planet, threatened by nuclear war, is in danger of total destruction. A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent.