Quotes about peace

It is up to us in our time to choose, and choose wisely, between the hard but necessary task of preserving peace and freedom, and the temptation to ignore our duty and blindly hope for the best while the enemies of freedom grow stronger day by day.

Ronald Reagan

I want to make people laugh and I want to try to encourage world peace.

Jackie Chan

In peace one is despoiled by the mercenaries, in war by one’s enemies.

Niccolo Machiavelli

While I believe in the power of positive thought, I do not believe that you or I can simply psyche ourselves into success or peace of mind.

Stephen Covey

Let your military measures be strong enough to repel the invader and keep the peace, and not so strong as to unnecessarily harrass and persecute the people.

Abraham Lincoln

The fastest way to get to a new-and-improved situation is to make peace with your current situation.

Esther Hicks

Happiness is the peace of mind that comes from feeling that I am living a worthy life in the company of people I love and in the service of something bigger than myself.

Michael Josephson

Today we are faced with the pre-eminent fact that if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships, the ability of all peoples of all kins to live together and to work together in the same world at peace.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.

Nelson Mandela

The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad.

George Orwell