“For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.”
Others on Peace
John Lennon
5 quotes“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.”
Spinoza
3 quotes“Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.”
George Washington
3 quotes“To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving 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...”
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.”
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.”