“Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.”
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John Lennon
5 quotes“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.”
Ulysses S. Grant
3 quotes“i have never advocated war except as a mean of peace”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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...”
François de La Rochefoucauld
2 quotes“If we have not peace within ourselves it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.”
Erasmus
2 quotes“The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.”
Ambrose Bierce
1 quote“Peace: in international affairs a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.”
Aung San Suu Kyi
1 quote“War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.”