936 private quotes tagged peace

“No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.” — Calvin Coolidge

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“Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.” — Barbara Boxer

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“Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.” — Kin Hubbard

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“The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.” — Colin Powell

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“There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.” — Leon Trotsky

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“I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.” — Pope Benedict XVI

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“The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.” — Elihu Root

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“War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.” — Andre Malraux

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“We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace.” — George W. Bush

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“Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.” — Yoko Ono

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“Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.” — Adam Smith

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“When we take our eyes off the whirl of day-to-day activity and concentrate on honoring Him and following in His way, we find a consistent peace that carries us through both plenty and poverty.” — Charles Stanley

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“A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman.” — Robert Johnson

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“We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are the keys and there are no others.” — Marianne Williamson

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“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.” — Norman Borlaug

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“I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.” — Ulysses S. Grant

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“An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.” — John Paul Jones

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“He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.” — Moliere

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“We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.” — Jimmy Carter

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“Every day I've got to be thankful that I am alive, and you never know - the cliche is, I guess, you could get hit by a bus tomorrow, so you'd better be at peace with whatever you got going at the moment.” — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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“In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.” — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

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“Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.” — Ulysses S. Grant

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“A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.” — Kwame Nkrumah

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“The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.” — Matthew Henry

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“Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.” — Albert Schweitzer

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