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.”
“On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians.”
-- Jimmy Carter
“Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.”
-- Elie Wiesel
“Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a Palestinian society not constrained by democratic norms would be a fear society that would pose a grave threat to Israel.”
-- Natan Sharansky
“From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war.”
-- Richard Cobden
“I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.”
-- Woody Allen