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.”
“After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.”
-- Adlai E. Stevenson
“Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.”
-- John Foster Dulles
“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that - given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind - chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth.”
-- Kenichi Fukui