7,293 Quotes About Peace

We should keep [the Panama Canal]. After all, we stole it fair and square.

Nuclear war is inevitable, says the pessimists; Nuclear war is impossible, says the optimists; Nuclear war is inevitable unless we make it impossible, says the realists.

War makes good history but peace is poor reading.

We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered.

Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote myself to -- is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving the community and serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are moral because it is a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the whole.

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.

If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.

If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them as the dial does of those that are clouded.