Peace War Quotes - Page 9

• My first wish is, to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements, and exercising them, for the destruction of mankind.

  George Washington

  Peace, War, 4th Of July

  "Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious".

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• Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

  George Washington

  Peace, War, Inspiration

  Farewell Address, Philadelphia, Pa., 19 Sept. 1796

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• No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

  Ronald Reagan

  Mother, Peace, War

  Moscow State University Address, delivered 31 May 1988, Moscow, Russia

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• I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Peace, War

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.43, Hackett Publishing

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• It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

  Voltaire

  Peace, Crazy, War

  "Rights". Book by Voltaire, 1771.

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• Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

  Carl Sandburg

  Peace, War, Giving

  The People, Yes pt. 23 (1936). The popular form of this expression was crystallized when Charlotte Keyes published an article titled "Suppose They Gave a War and No One Came?" in McCall's, Oct. 1966.

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• War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

  Thomas Mann

  Peace, War, Military

  "This I Believe" with Edward R. Murrow, 1951.

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• What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.

  Robert E. Lee

  Peace, War, Heart

  Robert E. Lee (2016). “The Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee (Abridged)”, p.206, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• War would end if the dead could return.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Peace, Military, War

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• There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

  Ralph Bunche

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

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• Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

  Kin Hubbard

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  Kin Hubbard, David S. Hawes (1995). “The Best of Kin Hubbard: Abe Martin's Sayings and Wisecracks, Abe's Neighbors, His Almanack, Comic Drawings”, p.139, Indiana University Press

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• The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

  David Friedman

  Funny, Peace, Children

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• All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, War, Battle

  Benjamin Franklin, E. Sargent (1855). “The select works of Benjamin Franklin”, p.459

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• There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Peace, War, 4th Of July

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• We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, Truth, Philosophy

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.163, Best Books on

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• If peace . . . only had the music and pageantry of war, there'd be no wars.

  Sophie Kerr

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

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• During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

  Howard Thurman

  Peace, War, Hatred

  Howard Thurman (2012). “Jesus and the Disinherited”, p.74, Beacon Press

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• Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Friendship, Peace

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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• Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Peace, Kings

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.115, Beacon Press

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• I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, War, Views

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.372, Penguin

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• The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Money, War, Successful

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution”, p.10, Algora Publishing

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• Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.

  Ellen Key

  Teamwork, Peace, Military

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• A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

  John F. Kennedy

  Christian, Peace, War

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.163, Best Books on

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• The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

  Pope John XXIII

  Peace, Equality, Mutual Help

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• The cure is care. Caring for others is the practice of peace. Caring becomes as important as curing. Caring produces the cure, not the reverse. Caring about nuclear war and its victims is the beginning of a cure for our obsession with war. Peace does not comes through strength. Quite the opposite: Strength comes through peace. The practices of peace strengthen us for every vicissitude. . . . The task is immense!

  Sargent Shriver

  War, Caring, Opposites

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