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Short Peace Quotes

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

Thomas Jefferson

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

Benjamin Disraeli

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Albert Einstein

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Benjamin Franklin

Peace Quotes About Nature

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.

Neil Armstrong

Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.

St. Jerome

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

Joseph Heller

We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for.

Joichi Ito

We who go out to die shall be remembered, because we gave the world peace. That will be our reward, though we will know nothing of it, but lie rotting in the earth - dead.

Philip Gibbs

For hundreds of millions of Americans who believe in God, prayer is our bridge between Earth and Heaven, our way of opening our hearts to the Lord. Through this intimate relationship we find peace and guidance.

Nick Rahall

Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.

Wendy Cope

The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the path that we must follow for the salvation of all nations on earth.

Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

Inspirational Peace Quotes

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Thomas Jefferson

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Albert Schweitzer

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

Mohandas Gandhi

More Peace Quotes

The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

Abraham Lincoln

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.

Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.

Thomas Merton

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquillity of a political convention.

Adlai E. Stevenson

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

Theodore Roosevelt

We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

George Washington

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

John F. Kennedy

My third appeal is to my fellow citizens in all countries: Help us to establish lasting peace in the world.

Joseph Rotblat

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

Peace Pilgrim

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

John F. Kennedy

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

Norman Vincent Peale

To solve the problem of organizing world peace we must establish world law and order.

Arthur Henderson

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I share the opinion of those of broader vision, who see in the signs of the time hope of humanity for peace.

Frank B. Kellogg

I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.

Yitzhak Rabin

Let's win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny.

Mike Pence

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

James A. Garfield

Finally, people are starting to recognize freedom and peace do have a cause, they do have a price.

Mark Foley

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world.

Sargent Shriver

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

Samuel Smiles

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Andre Gide

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

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.

Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.

Ludwig von Mises

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

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

Thomas Jefferson

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.

If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace.

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.

Elie Wiesel

Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.

The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.

Benazir Bhutto

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