Peace Quotes
“Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.”
-- Neil Armstrong
“Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.”
-- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
“There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.”
-- Leon Trotsky
“You can set up whatever negotiations or structure you want, but until the Palestinians are willing to accept the fact, as the majority of Israelis do, that there should be two states between the Jordan and the Mediterranean, we won't have peace.”
-- Charles Schumer
“The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.”
-- Arthur Henderson
“I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict.”
-- Frank B. Kellogg
“For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.”
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.”
-- Lester B. Pearson
“Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.”
-- Theodore Roosevelt
“The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis.”
-- Arthur Henderson