Explore Quotes on Peace

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

People do not make wars; governments do.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

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

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.

We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.

A man of peace does more good than a very learned man.

No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in today. No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present little instant.

Many man's scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the dangers of disobedience and unpeaceableness and rending in pieces the Church of Christ by needless separations and endless divisions.

Sleep, rest of nature, O sleep, most gentle of the divinities, peace of the soul, thou at whose presence care disappears, who soothest hearts wearied with daily employments, and makest them strong again for labour!

Liberating Iraq from a legacy of violence and putting it on the path to peace and prosperity will take time.

A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all.

Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.