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

“Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.”

-- Xavier Becerra

“I really am a woman at peace.”

-- Laura Schlessinger

“We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace.”

-- George W. Bush

“The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.”

-- Carlos Santana

“Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and, as we develop the peace process, we continue to use examples from South Africa.”

-- Gerry Adams

“The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace.”

-- Silvia Cartwright

“You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.”

-- J. Donald Walters

“Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.”

-- Stefan Zweig

“When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.”

-- Jimmy Carter