peace quotes

• 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. (Ronald Reagan) [weapons/mankind//give]
• War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. (Thomas Mann) [war/]
• Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. (John F. Kennedy) [/process]
• If there is to be any peace, it will come through being, not having. (Henry Miller) [/willpower/being]
• If there is to be any peace, it will come through being, not having. (Henry Miller) [/willpower/being]
• What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars. (Mikhail Gorbachev) []
• Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms. (Andrew Jackson) [/blood]
• See in what peace a Christian can die. (Joseph Addison) []
• It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him. ( Baudouin I) [more//war/destroy]
• If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots. ( Napoleon I) []
• There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed. (Albert Camus) [willpower//customs/death]
• The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all -- he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly. (Albert Camus) [find//evil/value]
• The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [/wife]
• Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill. (Winston Churchill) [war/defeat//goodwill]
• In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill. (Winston Churchill) [war/defeat//goodwill]
• Peace is liberty in tranquillity. (Marcus Cicero) []
• I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war. (Marcus Cicero) [/war]
• The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity. (Grover Cleveland) []
• The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices. (Richard Cobden) [civilization & progress/more//education]
• What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace. (Joseph Conrad) [men/form/]
• Peace is produced by war. (Pierre Corneille) [/war]
• That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world. (Benjamin Disraeli) [/price/more/more]
• There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept, or if you have slept, or if you have headache, or sciatica, or leprosy, or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace, and not pollute the morning. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [/morning]
• Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [/understanding]
• Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [/men/women]
• Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) []
• The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [president//time/]
• We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [willpower/america//]
• The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [god/]
• The triumphs of peace have been in some proximity to war. Whilst the hand was still familiar with the sword-hilt, whilst the habits of the camp were still visible in the port and complexion of the gentleman, his intellectual power culminated; the compression and tension of these stern conditions is a training for the finest and softest arts, and can rarely be compensated in tranquil times, except by some analogous vigor drawn from occupations as hardy as war. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [/war/power/training]
• There never was a good war or a bad peace. (Benjamin Franklin) [war/]

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