7,293 Quotes About Peace

There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power.

While might certainly does not make right, neither does right by itself make might.

The peace we seek in the world is not the flimsy peace which is merely an interlude between wars, but a peace which can endure for generations to come. It is important that we understand both the necessity and the limitations of America's role in maintaining that peace. Unless we in America work to preserve the peace, there will be no peace. Unless we in America work to preserve freedom, there will be no freedom.

It is not enough just to be for peace. The point is, what can we do about it?

Let historians not record that when America was the most powerful nation in the world we passed on the other side of the road and allowed the last hopes for peace and freedom of millions of people to be suffocated by the forces of totalitarianism. And so tonightto you, the great silent majority of my fellow AmericansI ask for your support.

Let us build a structure of peace in the world in which the weak are as safe as the strong — in which each respects the right of the other to live by a different system — in which those who would influence others will do so by the strength of their ideas, and not by the force of their arms. Let us accept that high responsibility not as a burden, but gladly — gladly because the chance to build such a peace is the noblest endeavor in which a nation can engage.

Any nation that decides the only way to achieve peace is through peaceful means is a nation that will soon be a piece of another nation.

So listen everybody to what I got to say, there's hope for tomorrow, if we wake up today.

Before the war, and especially before the Boer War, it was summer all the year round.