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

“I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.”

-- Mandy Patinkin

“In time of peace prepare for war.”

-- Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

“Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.”

-- Joseph Heller

“Peace Train is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions of human beings.”

-- Cat Stevens

“The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.”

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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.”

-- David Mamet

“I am a peace supporting Jew.”

-- Alan Dershowitz

“Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.”

-- John Major

“In my opinion, if we have not achieved peace, it is because people forget its most fundamental aspect. Before we talk about peace among nations, we must settle our peace with God.”

-- Sun Myung Moon