Quotes about Peace
Nations with nations mix'd confus'dly die, and lost in one promiscuous carnage lie.
- Joseph Addison
Men who have worked together to reach the stars are not likely to descend together into the depths of war and desolation.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it so as to strain every nerve to avoid it.
- Mahatma Gandhi
You cannot stop big wars if you carry on little wars yourselves.
- Mahatma Gandhi
War leads to peace. [Lat., Cedant arma togae.]
- Cicero
Those of us who love peace must organize as effectively as the war hawks. As they spread the propaganda of war, we must spread the propaganda of peace.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
No triumph of peace can equal the armed triumph of war.
- Theodore Roosevelt
War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state of peace and friendship with all mankind.
- Thomas Jefferson
I value peace, and I should unwillingly see any event take place which would render war a necessary resource.
- Thomas Jefferson
Let the world see that this nation can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to her bravest valor in time of war.
- Thomas Paine
That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.
- Victor Hugo
Mankind must put an end to war - or war will put an end to ma
- John F. Kennedy