“For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.”
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John Lennon
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Eisenhower
3 quotes“I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of their way and let them h...”
George Washington
3 quotes“To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.”
Ulysses S. Grant
3 quotes“i have never advocated war except as a mean of peace”
James Carter
2 quotes“We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
2 quotes“If we have not peace within ourselves it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.”
Dean Koontz
2 quotes“I am amazed that there are still nights when I sleep well.”
General Douglas MacArthur
2 quotes“The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scar...”
Thomas Paine
2 quotes“I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.”
Erasmus
2 quotes“The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.”
Nehru
1 quote“Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.”
Andrew Jackson
1 quote“Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms...”