Peace Quotes

“I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.”

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Unfortunately the world is what it is now. People don't get along for whatever reason. As professional athletes, in a way we're almost ambassadors for peace, because sports brings everyone together.”

-- Venus Williams

“I'll keep peace at all cost, even if I choke to death on my tongue.”

-- Paula Deen

“It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace.”

-- Jonathan Shapiro

“Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.”

-- Friedrich Schiller

“After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.”

-- Adlai E. Stevenson

“I would rather have peace in the world than be President.”

-- Harry S. Truman

“Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.”

-- John Foster Dulles

“We love peace, but not peace at any price.”

-- Douglas William Jerrold

“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.