Peace Quotes
“You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.”
“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