Peace Quotes

We Americans want peace, and it is now evident that we must be prepared to demand it. For other peoples have wanted peace, and the peace they received was the peace of death.

The choice before the free states of the world – is not between peaceful change and no change. The choice is between peaceful change and conflict.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

For forty-some years the ban-the-bomb bums, unilateral disarmament goonies, nuclear-freeze sleaze, peace creeps, and no-nukes kooks bragged about the horrors of atomic war. There was no end to their end of the world. They painstakingly detailed Armageddon, polished the Apocalypse, rubbed and loved a radioactive holocaust that made the Jonathan Edwards sermon “Sinners in the […]

The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man, or one party, or one nation. It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world.

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Any rich man does more for world peace than all the jerks pasting “Visualize World Peace” bumper stickers on their cars. The worst leech of a merger and acquisitions lawyer making $500,000 year will, even he cheats on his taxes, put $100,000 into the public coffers. That’s $100,000 of education, charity, or U.S. Marines. And […]

Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it and sacrifice for it. Twenty- five years ago American fighting men looked to the statesmen of the world to finish the work of peace for which they fought and suffered; we failed them, we failed them […]

We Smiths want peace so bad we’re prepared to kill every one of the Joneses to get it.