PEACE QUOTES III

quotations about peace

Peace quote

The firmest security of peace is the preparation during peace of the defenses of war.

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Inaugural Address, March 4, 1825

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Though the heart wear the garment of its sorrow
And be not happy like a naked star,
Yet from the thought of peace some peace we borrow,
Some rapture from the rapture felt afar.

GEORGE SANTAYANA

"Premonition", A Hermit of Carmel

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If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with children; and if they will grow up in their natural innocence, we won't have to struggle, we won't have to pass fruitless idle resolutions. But we shall go from love to love and peace to peace, until at last all the corners of the world are covered with that peace and love for which, consciously or unconsciously, the whole world is hungering.

MAHATMA GANDHI

Young India, November 19, 1931

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We wish peace, but we wish the peace of justice, the peace of righteousness. We wish it because we think it is right and not because we are afraid.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Inaugural Address, March 4, 1905

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Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures, it is our gift to each other.

ELIE WIESEL

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1986

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Jesus is called the Prince of Peace, but we look around us and we may often feel like there is no peace for Jesus to reign over. The troubles that surround us, the chaos that is in this world and the pain and suffering that thrives in people. Where is the peace in all of this? God promises in His Word numerous times how He intends to bring peace to this world, but the peace He desires for us sometimes isn't the kind of peace we are looking for. Many people want to see a complete absence of trials, but that's not the way that God brings peace. God works in the heart that it may receive peace no matter the circumstances.

PATRICK MABILOG

"Jesus promises peace, but why can't I feel it?", Christian Today, April 6, 2016


All people have a desire for world peace in their hearts, and through compassion, they can come together to take action and make the world a more peaceful place.

MUHAMMED ALHASSAN YAKUBU

"JCI Ghana Launches Peace Is Possible Campaign", News Ghana, March 11, 2016


We discover peace, we unveil it. Peace is a discovery, not a conquest. It is the fruit of a revelation.

RAIMON PANIKKAR

Cultural Disarmament


This is a time for action -- not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

My Day

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Don't search for anything except peace. Try to calm the mind. Everything else will come on its own.

BABA HARI DAS

official website

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Peace, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

AMBROSE BIERCE

The Devil's Dictionary

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The peace of our world is indivisible. As long as negative forces are getting the better of positive forces anywhere, we are all at risk.

AUNG SAN SUU KYI

Nobel Lecture, June 16, 2012

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The day will come when the people will make so insistent their demand that there be peace in the world that the Governments will get out of the way and let them have peace.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

broadcast discussion, August 31, 1959

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Peace, gentlemen, it is well known, does not come of its own accord, and neither does freedom. Peace has enemies. Peace must be won by the sword.

JOHN LE CARRÉ

The Mission Song

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I devoutly believe in the reign of peace and in the gradual advent of some sort of socialistic equilibrium. The fatalistic view of the war function is to me nonsense, for I know that war-making is due to definite motives and subject to prudential checks and reasonable criticisms, just like any other form of enterprise. And when whole nations are the armies, and the science of destruction vies in intellectual refinement with the science of production, I see that war becomes absurd and impossible from its own monstrosity. Extravagant ambitions will have to be replaced by reasonable claims, and nations must make common cause against them.

WILLIAM JAMES

The Moral Equivalent of War

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Peace is priceless, but not at any price.

ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES

Poems and Paragraphs

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At the heart of happiness lies peace. It is the last and the highest attainment of the soul.

HUGH BLACK

Happiness

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O that all human hearts might join the strain;
Then Hate, and Bigotry, and Sin would die;
Then Peace would reign and wear its olive crown,
And War with blood-stained feet no longer track
Earth's fair domain, or wave its crimson flag.
Then Pride would lay its flaunting mantle by;
The cry of Hunger cease--the oppressor's rod
Would scourge no more, but man be linked to man
In one unbroken chain of brotherhood.

ALBERT LAIGHTON

"The Love of God"

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Military power serves the cause of security by making prohibitive the cost of any aggressive attack. It serves the cause of peace by holding up a shield behind which the patient constructive work of peace can go on.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

State of the Union Address, January 9, 1958

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Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.

HOSEA BALLOU

Edge-Tools of Speech

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