936 private quotes tagged peace

“The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.” — C. S. Lewis

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“Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.” — Nelson Mandela

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“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.” — John F. Kennedy

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“We make war that we may live in peace.” — Aristotle

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“Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.” — Ronald Reagan

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“If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.” — Buddha

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“I would rather have peace in the world than be President.” — Harry S. Truman

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“Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.” — Victor Hugo

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“Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“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

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“If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.” — John Lennon

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“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.” — André Gide

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“A peace is of the nature of a conquest for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.” — William Shakespeare

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“We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.” — Franklin P. Adams

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“It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!” — Graham Greene

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