7,293 Quotes About Peace

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

Work for your own soul's sake.

The problem is that the East is producing missiles and the West is producing pacifists.

I believe there's no such thing as a conflict that can't be ended. They're created and sustained by human beings. They can be ended by human beings. No matter how ancient the conflict, no matter how hateful, no matter how hurtful, peace can prevail.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

The Gettysburg Adress has been included, of late, in several anthologies of poetry. It actually meets the major requirement of all poetry: It is a mellifluous and emotional statement of the obviously not true. The men who fought for self-determination at Gettysburg were not the Federals but the Confederates.