“The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.”
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“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.”
“We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.”
“If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.”
“Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.”
“Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.”
“War makes thieves and peace hangs them.”
“There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.”
“Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.”
“Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.”
“On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians.”
“Because I know about the Holy Land, I've taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and - but you can't bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.”
“To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations.”
“I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.”
“In my opinion, if we have not achieved peace, it is because people forget its most fundamental aspect. Before we talk about peace among nations, we must settle our peace with God.”
“Peace is our gift to each other.”
“In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.”
“Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.”
“My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours.”
“When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.”
“When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.”
“The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.”
“Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war.”
“He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.”