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.”
“I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict.”
-- Frank B. Kellogg
“For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.”
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.”
-- Lester B. Pearson
“Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.”
-- Theodore Roosevelt
“The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis.”
-- Arthur Henderson