Life Quotes... Peace Quotes

“There is no way to peace; peace is the way.”
                                                A. J. Muste

“Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.”
                                                Baruch Spinoza

“An unjust peace is better than a just war.”
                                                Cicero

“One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.”
                                                David Borenstein

“People want peace so badly that governments ought to get out of their way and let them have it.”
                                                Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Peace, like charity, begins at home.”
                                                Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Could I have but a line, a century hence, crediting a contribution to the cause of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.”
                                                General Douglas MacArthur

“The mere absence of war is not peace.”
                                                John F. Kennedy

“Peach hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew.”
                                                John Greenleaf Whittier

“Peace hath her victories, no less renown’d than war.”
                                                John Milton

“Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?”
                                                Lorraine Hansberry

“Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.”
                                                Lyndon B. Johnson

“In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war, we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.”
                                                Lyndon B. Johnson

“If blood be shed, let it be our blood.  Cultivate the quiet courage of dying without killing. For man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.”
                                                Mohandas K. Gandhi

“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”
                                                Ralph Waldo Emerson

“War breaks out; peace settles in.”

“Better an uneasy peace than an easy war.”

“Better to keep peace than have to make peace.”

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