Peace Quotes
The army's original job description was to protect borders, but a demanding country depends on it for everything else too, from rebuilding bridges after a tsunami to keeping the peace when religious riots erupt.
Barkha Dutt
Indian television journalist
No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.
Calvin Coolidge
American attorne
For most women, Greenham was a place of principle, growth and song. Often joyful, sometimes terrifying, and almost always cold. As it got harder, with constant evictions and mounting violence from a frustrated and humiliated police force, the women got more determined. It was a community with a shared purpose - to live in peace.
Beeban Kidron
Member of the House of Lords of the United Kingdom
I've found a bit of peace in myself.
Goldie
British music producer
The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous.
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
Former United States Ambassador to the United Nations
I believe if religion brings you to a sense of peace, that's beautiful. But I also believe if religion's not your thing, that's fine, too, just so long as you're a good person and you find that one thing that leads you to peace and teaches you to have harmony with yourself and other people around you.
Michelle Phan
American YouTuber
Some might complain that nuclear disarmament is little more than a dream. But that ignores the very tangible benefits disarmament would bring for all humankind. Its success would strengthen international peace and security. It would free up vast and much-needed resources for social and economic development. It would advance the rule of law.
Ban Ki-Moon
Former Secretary-General of the United Nations
I would head to the countryside for peace and silence. That would be the best way, away from panicked, hysterical people.
Diana Rigg
English actress
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
Dorothy Thompson
American journalist
You have to understand that people have to pay a price for peace. If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
Fred Hampton
American activist
The need for peace in Northern Ireland goes well beyond political stability. It now speaks to regional Europe and even global stability.
Hillary Clinton
Former United States Secretary of State
America is the world of peace and must be made the continent of its definite consequence.
Carlos Saavedra Lamas
Former Minister of Foreign Relations of the Argentine Nation
You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.
Henry Kissinger
Former United States Secretary of State
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American essayist
The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.
Jim Harrison
American poet
When you have hope, and you have peace, you can handle anything.
Paul Henderson
Canadian ice hockey player
Never underestimate or mock peace.
Boris Trajkovski
Former President of North Macedonia
I want to work for peace, not for war.
Matteo Salvini
Vice President of the Council of Ministers of Italy
Money can come and go, and fame comes and goes. Peace of mind and a relationship with God is far more important, so this is the precedent that we've set in our lives. The bottom line is, we all die, so Jesus is the answer.
Phil Robertson
American hunter
I do not want war. I am not seeking revenge, even though I can see before my eyes the great sacrifices made by the Ukrainian people. I am seeking peace and will achieve Ukraine's unity.
Petro Poroshenko
People's Deputy of Ukraine
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