“The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.”
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peace
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“Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ's followers seem to disagree.”
“The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.”
“I would rather have peace in the world than be President.”
“The only peace is being out of earshot.”
“Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.”
“The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.”
“I think that peace will require two states, a Palestinian state that recognizes the Jewish state.”
“In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!”
“Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.”
“Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.”
“God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.”
“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.”
“Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.”
“The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.”
“We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.”
“Lord, Bless our enemies have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land.”
“It's good that the first half of the speech emphasized freedom, because George W. Bush has been the global champion for freedom. As he said, if we don't fight tyranny it will not leave us alone in peace.”
“Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she be of the greatest service to the world's peace and to the welfare of mankind.”
“Israel is no longer a people that dwells alone, and has to join the global journey toward peace, reconciliation and international cooperation.”
“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.”
“Fair peace becomes men ferocious anger belongs to beasts.”
“As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive.”
“Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.”