Peace Quotes
“It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war.”
“Lord, Bless our enemies have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land.”
-- William Pennington
“There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.”
-- Douglas William Jerrold
“True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.”
-- Gerrit Smith
“Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.”
-- John Lennon
“My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.”
-- David Mamet