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Peace

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love. – Peace Pilgrim

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things. – Peace Pilgrim

I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace. – Lester B. Pearson

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies. – Lester B. Pearson

He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure. – Thomas a Kempis

Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God. – Thomas a Kempis

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace. – Herodotus

All of us deserve a greater peace of mind, knowing that our children are better protected wherever they are. – Bob Ney

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

Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace? – Lorraine Hansberry

The Nobel Peace Prize opened up a door in my heart. – Aung San Suu Kyi

Today, we have two Vietnams, side by side, North and South, exchanging and working. We may not agree with all that North Vietnam is doing, but they are living in peace. I would look for a better human rights record for North Vietnam, but they are living side by side. – Sheila Jackson Lee

Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace. – Daisaku Ikeda

It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted. – Condoleezza Rice

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

To solve the problem of organizing world peace we must establish world law and order. – Arthur Henderson

Let him who desires peace prepare for war. – Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

Peace with Israel is a strategic imperative for Jordan. – King Abdullah II

That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two. – Shimon Peres

When I am speaking about American presidents, I have to speak about my very special relations with President Clinton. He contributed more to peace than anybody else in the American sense. – Shimon Peres