Quotes on Peace

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against one other.

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts; And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime. And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.

I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference.

Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?

Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, “What kind of peace?

A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.