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I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Harry S. Truman

President · American · 1884 – 1972

Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.

Dag Hammarskjold

Diplomat · Swedish · 1905 – 1961

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.

Hannah Arendt

Historian · German · 1906 – 1975

Many American Muslims are peaceful and define jihad primarily as an internal struggle to improve.

Marvin Olasky

Educator · American · b. 1950

Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.

Arthur Henderson

Politician · British · 1863 – 1935

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

President · American · 1890 – 1969

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Leader · American · 1929 – 1968

That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.

William Feather

Author · American · 1889 – 1981

The peace movement is a great force for peace. Some of the world's most quarrelsome people act out their aggressions through the peace movement.

John McCarthy

Politician · American

Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

Kin Hubbard

Journalist · American · 1868 – 1930

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Herbert Hoover

President · American · 1874 – 1964

It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.

Aneurin Bevan

Politician · Welsh · 1897 – 1960

Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.

Bernard Baruch

Businessman · American · 1870 – 1965

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

Artist · American · b. 1933

The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.

Warren Christopher

Statesman · American · 1925 – 2011

The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Leader · Indian · 1889 – 1964

Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.

Gerry Adams

Politician · Irish · b. 1948

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Anton Chekhov

Dramatist · Russian · 1860 – 1904

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1, 2006.

Solomon Ortiz

Politician · American · b. 1937

But take comfort in that I die at peace with the world and myself - not afraid.

Robert Falcon Scott

Explorer · British · 1868 – 1912

In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems.

Sargent Shriver

Politician · American · b. 1915

To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag.

Pauline Hanson

Politician · Australian · b. 1954

In addition to serving overseas, the Peace Corps' Crisis Corps Volunteers have helped their fellow Americans.

Solomon Ortiz

Politician · American · b. 1937

The American people want peace. They have long since ceased to talk of a hard or a soft peace for Germany.

James F. Byrnes

Politician · American · 1879 – 1972

Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.

Marianne Williamson

Author · American · b. 1952

I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.

John Bright

Politician · British · 1811 – 1889

There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

Black Elk

Leader

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

Abraham Lincoln

President · American · 1809 – 1865

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

Fran Lebowitz

Journalist · American · b. 1951

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

President · American · 1890 – 1969

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Politician · American · 1900 – 1965

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Aesop

Author · Greek

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.

Ludwig von Mises

Economist · Austrian · 1881 – 1973

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

Alice Walker

Author · American · b. 1944

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Henry Miller

Author · American · 1891 – 1980

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

Benjamin Franklin

Politician · American · 1706 – 1790

We will not fail your expectations of us as a new nation dedicated to peace, democracy, and freedom.

Shigeru Yoshida

Politician · Japanese · 1878 – 1967

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

Martin Luther

Leader · German · 1483 – 1546

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

Francis of Assisi

Saint · Italian

I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.

Elia Kazan

Director · American · 1909 – 2003

Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace.

Ludwig Quidde

Critic · German · 1858 – 1941

Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Dramatist · Belgian · 1862 – 1949

In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.

Kamisese Mara

Statesman · Fijian · 1920 – 2004

We can hope that men will understand that the interest of all are the same, that hope lies in cooperation. We can then perhaps keep PEACE.

Alva Myrdal

Diplomat · Swedish · 1902 – 1986

They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict.

Peter Mandelson

Politician · British · b. 1953

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

Andrew Jackson

President · American · 1767 – 1845

Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

Ludwig von Mises

Economist · Austrian · 1881 – 1973

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

Peace Pilgrim

Activist · American · 1908 – 1981

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