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

“The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.”

-- Colin Powell

“I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace.”

-- Lester B. Pearson

“I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.”

-- Paloma Picasso

“A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.”

-- Henry Van Dyke

“Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.”

-- Victor Hugo

“Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!”

-- Georg Buchner

“Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.”

-- Dag Hammarskjold

“Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems.”

-- Fredrik Bajer

“Now people all across America are starting to believe in America again. We are coming back, back to the heights of greatness, back to America's proud role as a temple of justice and a champion of peace.”

-- Theodore C. Sorensen