Peace Quotes

Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things which cannot be shared. (Julien Benda, 1867-1956)

He makes a solitude, and calls it – peace! (Lord Byron, 1788-1824)

We have preserved peace in our time. (Neville Chamberlain, 1869-1940)

Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind. (William Collins, 1720-1756)

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. (Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1890-1969)

There never was a good war or a bad peace. (Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790)

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. (Jimi Hendrix, 1942-1970)

I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace. (Helen Keller, 1880-1968)

Peace will come soon to stay, and so come as to be worth keeping in all future time. It will then have proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure their cases and pay the costs. (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865)

We supplicate all rulers not to remain deaf to the cry of mankind. Let them do everything in their power to save peace. By so doing they will spare the world the horrors of a war that would have disastrous consequences, such as nobody can foresee. (Pope John XXIII)

We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule. (Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1964)

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism. (Dorothy Thompson, 1894-1961)

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence. (Dorothy Thompson, 1894-1961)

They have not wanted Peace at all; they have wanted to be spared war -- as though the absence of war was the same as peace. (Dorothy Thompson, 1894-1961)

There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy. (George Washington, 1732-1799)

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