Peace Quotes
“The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.”
“Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.”
-- Andrew Jackson
“It is by such means as the prize offered by your Committee that the attention of the world will be focused and that men and women will be inspired to greater efforts in the interest of peace.”
-- Frank B. Kellogg
“Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.”
-- Benito Mussolini
“I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness - and then the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day, I'm a human trying to make it through in this world.”
-- Ellen DeGeneres
“Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.”
-- Ludwig von Mises
“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.”
-- Abraham Maslow