Peace Quotes

To have peace we should be willing… to pay any price – even the price of instituting a war – to compel cooperation for peace… This peace-seeking policy, though it cast us in a character new to a true democracy – an initiator of a war of aggression – would earn for us a proud […]

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

Peace is a continuation of war by other means

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

Only the just man enjoys peace of mind.

Who would prefer peace to the glory of hunger and thirst, of wading through mud, and dying in the service of one’s country?

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.