Peace Quotes

"A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser."

"A people free to choose will always choose peace."

"Even peace may be purchased at too high a price."

"He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees."

"If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots."

"Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it."

"One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others."

"Peace is its own reward."

"Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know."

"Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived."

"General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"

"Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping."

"A peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience."

"If I must choose between peace and righteousness, I choose righteousness"

"There is no road towards peace; peace is the road"

"In this weak piping time of peace."

"Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done."

"The people of the United States want peace. The people of China want peace. The people of the Soviet Union want peace. Why can't we have peace?"

"Being free and prosperous in a world at peace. That's our ultimate goal."

"I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace."