If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
~By Henry Miller ~
Can you look forward to the future of our country and imagine any state of things in which, with slavery still existing, we should be assured of permanent peace? I cannot.
~By Robert Dale Owen ~
Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.
~By Courteney Cox ~
Penn State in 1955 became the first university to be issued a federal license to operate a nuclear reactor, which it continues to use for studies in the peaceful uses of atomic energy and the training of nuclear industry personnel.
~By Don Sherwood ~
The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.
~By Grover Cleveland ~
I wish the Peace Corps and its volunteers continued success and perseverance. We are grateful for their contributions to society and dedication to providing assistance where it is needed. May the Peace Corps continue its legacy of service, both at home and abroad.
~By Kenny Marchant ~
World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous plenty and of permanent peace.
~By Gifford Pinchot ~
This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be a currency for peace and international cooperation.
~By Bill Frist ~
I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.
~By Harold Brodkey ~
Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.
~By Julien Benda ~
For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps.
~By Camryn Manheim ~
Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.
~By Elisabeth Kubler-Ross ~
As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.
~By Pythagoras ~
My life has been devoted to peacemaking.
~By Feisal Abdul Rauf ~
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
~By John Lennon ~
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
~By Malcolm X ~
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
~By Buddha ~
Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of disarmament is superfluous and pointless as long as eternal peace has not been attained.
~By Ludwig Quidde ~
At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.
~By Charlize Theron ~
Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.
~By John Foster Dulles ~
It is better we disintegrate in peace and not in pieces.
~By Nnamdi Azikiwe ~
There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.
~By A. J. P. Taylor ~
We're aligning ourselves with Kerry. Our allegiance will be for peace, against war, no more deaths for oil, and for a dialogue between the government of Spain and the new Kerry administration.
~By Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero ~
The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown.
~By Henry Walter Bates ~
For three years now, our brave men and women in uniform have done everything their country has asked of them, yet President Bush still does not have a plan to win the peace in Iraq and bring our troops home.
~By Marty Meehan ~
Let us return, however, to the League of Nations. To create an organization which is in a position to protect peace in this world of conflicting interests and egotistic wills is a frighteningly difficult task.
~By Hjalmar Branting ~
My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern, followed by the Palestinian peace process.
~By Brent Scowcroft ~
If peace only had the music and pageantry of war, there'd be no wars.
~By Sophie Kerr ~
It will give them the opportunity to show themselves worthy of the respect and friendship of peace-loving nations, and in time, to take an honorable place among members of the United Nations.
~By James F. Byrnes ~
It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.
~By Robert D. Ballard ~
The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War.
~By Kenzaburo Oe ~
Freedom from militarism will give the German people the opportunity, if they will but seize it, to apply their great energies and abilities to the works of peace.
~By James F. Byrnes ~
Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal Government the sole management of our relations with foreign governments.
~By Robert Toombs ~
I have never made a threat. I've never made a threat, never expressed a threat, never - I've never - I would never threaten violence ever, because I am a man of peace, dedicated to peace.
~By Feisal Abdul Rauf ~
It's not so much about killing an animal, it's being at peace and you don't have to worry about all the other things that go on. That's a couple of hours a week that you get to escape but it's nice to do that.
~By Brett Favre ~
I am sure the majority of Iranians want a peace agreement with Israel and want Iran to integrate with the international community and accept its universal values.
~By Moshe Katsav ~
Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread; otherwise there will be no peace.
~By Norman Borlaug ~
The purpose of all war is peace.
~By Saint Aurelius Augustine ~
Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
~By Douglas MacArthur ~
My third appeal is to my fellow citizens in all countries: Help us to establish lasting peace in the world.
~By Joseph Rotblat ~
We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.
~By Zbigniew Brzezinski ~
Today's global landscape is increasingly interconnected. China and the Middle East play critical roles towards international peace and security.
~By Rick Larsen ~
I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict.
~By Frank B. Kellogg ~
Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not so far been won to the cause.
~By Fredrik Bajer ~
Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you're just fair game.
~By Greta Garbo ~
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
~By Victor Hugo ~
We tried our best for the longest time to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the matter, and at each step, we were thwarted by those that said, No, we will not turn the boy over to his father.
~By Janet Reno ~
Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.
~By Sandra Cisneros ~
I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
~By Red Cloud ~
The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.
~By Jose Bergamin ~
We believe democracy to be the only real guarantor of stability and we have sought to create a 'Jordanian model' that might also inspire others in our region. I wish democracy and peace to be my legacy to my people and the shield of generations to come.
~By King Hussein I ~
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
~By Thomas Merton ~
There can be no peace with someone who wants to kill you.
~By David Horowitz ~
It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestine tragedy, there can be no stable peace in the Middle East.
~By King Hussein I ~
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
The first thing I see is the obligation to serve peace.
~By Gustav Heinemann ~
And if we are honest we have to make a distinction between a democratic Israel that wants to live in peace and the terrorists who want Israel wiped out. The Israelis were told to give up land for peace; they gave up the land, but got no peace.
~By J. D. Hayworth ~
We can best honor the memories of those who were killed on September 11 and those who have been killed fighting the war on terrorism, by dedicating ourselves to building a free and peaceful world safe from the threat of terrorism.
~By Jack Reed ~
Peace cannot come from punishing the Palestinian people.
~By Nick Rahall ~
Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.
~By William Bennett ~
Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.
~By Maurice Maeterlinck ~
Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.
~By Paul Wellstone ~
I want to warn anyone who sees the Peace Corps as an alternative to the draft that life may well be easier at Fort Dix or at apost in Germany than it will be with us.
~By Sargent Shriver ~
To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag.
~By Pauline Hanson ~
Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace.
~By Frank B. Kellogg ~
True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.
~By Leon Jouhaux ~
You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.
~By George Armstrong Custer ~
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
~By Isaac Asimov ~
Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.
~By George W. Bush ~
It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted.
~By Condoleezza Rice ~
It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.
~By Roger Moore ~
Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
~By U. Thant ~
I want just to be happy and peaceful. And that's not always the case when you're married.
~By Olivier Martinez ~
To craftsmanship we shall add statesmanship in the capitol of peace.
~By Warren R. Austin ~
I am firmly convinced that, in future years, China and India will join hands in playing a more active role in maintaining peace and stability in the region and the world at large and make due contribution to the cause of human progress and development.
~By Li Peng ~
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
~By Jawaharlal Nehru ~
We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
~By Jeane Kirkpatrick ~
You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.
~By Max Lerner ~
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
~By Thomas Paine ~
In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.
~By Cat Stevens ~
In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.
~By Herodotus ~
But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for the truths of the Lord Jesus.
~By George Whitefield ~
Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.
~By Josh McDowell ~
I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.
~By Robert Indiana ~
Such an arrangement would provide Taiwan and China with a forum for dialogue whereby they may forge closer ties based on mutual understanding and respect, leading to permanent peace in the Taiwan Strait.
~By Nick Lampson ~
A stable Iraq at peace with its neighbors will remain elusive until we improve both the security and the economic environment in Iraq.
~By Tom Lantos ~
One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
~By Lao Tzu ~
Throughout that period, Japan had made honest efforts to keep the destruction of war from spreading and, based on the belief that all nations of the world should find their places, had followed a policy designed to restore an expeditious peace between Japan and China.
~By Hideki Tojo ~
Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.
~By Phyllis McGinley ~
Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.
~By William McKinley ~
Isaac and I are going to Israel to ride for peace enviromental justice and a safer world for us all.
~By Mandy Patinkin ~
In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems.
~By Sargent Shriver ~
I was opposed to World War II, and indeed on June 22, 1941 when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union I suddenly found myself the lone supporter of peace since everybody else had, because of their communist beliefs, shifted over to become supporters of the war.
~By Douglass North ~
Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
We do not want riches, we want peace and love.
~By Red Cloud ~
Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
~By Xavier Becerra ~
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