Peace Quotes

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

Peace signifies more than the stilling of guns, easing the sorrow of war. More than escape from death, it is a way of life. More than a haven for the weary, it is a hope for the brave.

You are seeking joy and peace in far-off places. But the spring of joy is in your heart. The haven of peace is in yourself.

In foreign affairs I will continue our policy of peace through strength.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.

Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment.

How can I talk to a fellow (Woodrow Wilson) who thinks himself the first man in two thousand years to know anything about peace on earth?

Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him.

But the true threats to stability and peace are these nations that are not very transparent, that hide behind the – that don’t let people in to take a look and see what they’re up to. They’re very kind of authoritarian regimes. The true threat is whether or not one of these people decide, peak […]