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‘Freedom of belief and worship is the most important guarantee of social peace.
Ahmet Necdet Sezner
Belief Peace Worship
The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.
Tony Snow
Business Oil Peace
Today’s global landscape is increasingly interconnected. China and the Middle East play critical roles towards international peace and security.
Rick Larsen
Peace Play Security Today
He wants only to rest and to have a little peace.
Luciano Pavarotti
Peace Rest
Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.
Ulysses S. Grant
Peace Profession War
I was opposed to World War II, and indeed on June 22, 1941 when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union I suddenly found myself the lone supporter of peace since everybody else had, because of their communist beliefs, shifted over to become supporters of the war.
Douglass North
Beliefs June Peace War World World war
We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.
Joseph Goebbels
Love Peace
For three years now, our brave men and women in uniform have done everything their country has asked of them, yet President Bush still does not have a plan to win the peace in Iraq and bring our troops home.
Marty Meehan
Country Home Iraq Men Now Peace President Troops Women Years
Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
Erich Fromm
Love Mother Peace
You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.
Max Lerner
Brotherhood End May Peace
The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.
John F. Kennedy
America Americans Hate Peace Want War Will World
Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light.
Adelaide Anne Procter
Day Joy Light Night Peace Quiet
One can go to war alone, butyou can’t build peace alone.
Jacques Chirac
Peace War
If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes.
Nguyen Cao Ky
American Americans Peace People World
Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.
Joseph Auslander
Living Men Peace Thanksgiving World
I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.
Alfred Nobel
Death Idea Peace Promotion Results
You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.
Anthony Eden
Gain May Peace Policy Violence
Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come – and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance.
Condoleezza Rice
Acting America Chance Help Peace Success Years
War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
Andre Malraux
Peace Questions War
As a result of the World War and of a peace whose imperfections and risks are no longer denied by anyone, are we not even further away from the great aspirations and hopes for peace and fraternity than we were one or two decades ago?
Hjalmar Branting
Aspirations Peace Result War World World war
The secret of living in peace with all people lies in the art of understanding each one by his own individuality.
Friedrich Ludwig Jahn
Art Individuality Lies Living Peace People Understanding
We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.
James H. Douglas
Fighting Peace Terror Tyranny Want
No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.
Yitzhak Rabin
Idea Peace Violence Will
I would rather have peace in the world than be President.
Harry S. Truman
Peace President World
That co-operation and peace rather than industrial strife and strikes will best promote the prosperity of the employees the company and all of the people and even strengthen the nation.
Charles E. Wilson
Company Employees Nation Peace People Prosperity Will
The purpose of all wars, is peace.
Saint Augustine
Peace Purpose
We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are the keys and there are no others.
Marianne Williamson
Peace
You don’t make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
Yitzhak Rabin
Enemies Friends Peace
We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
A. J. Muste
Accident Life Peace Want War
In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East.
Paul Robeson
American Class Danger Deep Desire Fact Land Leaders Peace Propaganda
We belong to the camp of peace. We believe in peace. We believe that our one God wishes us to live in peace and wishes peace upon us, for these are His teachings to all the followers of the three great monotheistic religions, the Children of Abraham.
King Hussein I
Children Followers God Peace Wishes
I declare that I will establish peace in this world.
Prem Rawat
Peace Will World
The change began in Somalia, where we discovered that we were involved in an operation where there was no peace, so there was no more a peacekeeping operation because there was no peace.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Change Peace
To me our bombing policy appears to be suicidal. Not because it does not do vast damage to our enemy, it does; but because, simultaneously, it does vast damage to our peace aim, unless that aim is mutual economic and social annihilation.
J. F. C. Fuller
Enemy Peace Policy
It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation.
Louis Finkelstein
Grave May Military Peace Preparation Religious War
You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire.
Larry Brown
Fire Life Peace
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
Buddha
Peace Word Words
Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace.
Ludwig Quidde
Peace Progress Security
But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people.
Paul Robeson
American Deep Desire Peace People
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
Courage Life Patience Peace Sleep
Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you.
Aron Ralston
Happiness Honor Love Peace World
Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen.
Marianne Williamson
God Peace Spirit World
The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.
Colin Powell
Action Peace Power Security states United Will
I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.
Gerald Jampolsky
Mind Peace
Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman’s toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.
Marianne Williamson
Light Men Peace Running Tongue Woman World
I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance – the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace.
Richard Cobden
Importance Man Peace Practice Question Talk Time War
I wish the Peace Corps and its volunteers continued success and perseverance. We are grateful for their contributions to society and dedication to providing assistance where it is needed. May the Peace Corps continue its legacy of service, both at home and abroad.
Kenny Marchant
Dedication Home May Peace Perseverance Service Society Success
I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all mankind. And the same is true of labor and the great democratic sections of our population.
Paul Robeson
Force Goal Labor Mankind Peace People Population Pursuit
Germany’s fate is decided first and foremost in Europe. Reconciliation and cooperation in Europe have brought us freedom, peace and prosperity. Who would have dared to believe so much 50 years ago?
Horst Koehler
Cooperation Europe Fate First Freedom Germany Peace Prosperity Years
Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one’s level of peace of mind.
Sydney Madwed
Action Feeling Goal Mind Peace Thought
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