William Shakespeare

"All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own."

Oscar W. Firkins

"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

Mohandas Gandhi

"Even peace may be purchased at too high a price."

Benjamin Franklin

"Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts."

Ovid

"He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees."

Benjamin Franklin

"I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace."

Muhammad Ali

"I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war."

Georges Clemenceau

"I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots."

Napoleon Bonaparte

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."

Mother Teresa

"It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace."

Andre Gide

"It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force."

David Borenstein

"Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it."

Thomas Jefferson

"Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Peace begins with a smile."

Mother Teresa

"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew."

John Greenleaf Whittier

"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."

Baruch Spinoza

"The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war."

Vera Brittain

"The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned."

Dag Hammarskjold

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

John F. Kennedy

"War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands."

H. L. Mencken

"Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war."

John Andrew Holmes