(dying words)
See in what peace a Christian can die.
Aristotle 384-322 BC
Nicomachean Ethics
We make war that we may live in peace.
Auden W. H. 1907-1973
‘The Unknown Citizen'
Our researchers into Public Opinion are content
That he held the proper opinions for the time of year;
When there was peace, he was for peace; when there
was war, he went.
Berrigan Daniel 1921-
There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at
least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent.
Bierce Ambrose 1842-c.1914
The Devil's Dictionary
Peace, n: in international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
Blake William 1757-1827
Songs of Innocence „The Divine Image"
For Mercy has a human heart
Pity a human face:
And Love, the human form divine,
And peace, the human dress.
Bonaparte Napoleon 1822-1891
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pinpricks that precede cannon shots.
The Book of Common Prayer
Morning Prayer, Versicle
Give peace in our time, O Lord.
Brecht Bertholt 1898-1956
Mother Courage
Peace is nothing but slovenliness, only war creates order.
Brecht Bertholt 1898-1956
Mother Courage
Don't tell me peace has broken out, when I've just bought some new supplies.
Bright John 1811-1889
I am for ‘Peace, retrenchment, and reform.'
Clarendon Edward, Earl of 1609-1674
The History of the Rebellion (of Falkland)
So enamoured on peace that he would have been glad the king should have bought it at any price.
Clemenceau Georges 1841-1929
It is easier to make war than to make peace.
Collins William 1721-1759
‘The Passions, an Ode for Music'
Love of peace, and lonely musing,
In hollow murmurs died away.
Disraeli Benjamin 1804-1881
(on return from Congress of Berlin)
[We] have brought you back peace - but a peace
I hope with honour.
Dulles John Foster 1888-1959
You have to take chances for peace, just as you must take chances in war.
Dulles John Foster 1888-1959
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities.
Eisenhower Dwight D. 1890-1969
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
Emerson Ralph Waldo 1803-1882
The peace of the man who has foresworn the use of the bullet
seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence.
Feather William
That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.
Ferre Nels F.S.
A man who exeriences no genuine satisfaction in life does not want peace. People court war to escape meaninglessness and boredom, to be relieved of fear and frustration.
Foch Ferdinand 1851-1929
(at the signing of the Treaty of Versailles)
This is not a peace treaty, it is an armistice for twenty years.
Franklin Benjamin 1706-1790
(letter to Josiah Quincy)
There never was a good war, or a bad peace.
George V King 1865-1936
I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent
witnesses to the desolation of war.
Gladstone W.E. 1809-1898
We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
Goethe Johann von 1749-1832
Faust
My peace is gone,
My heart is heavy.
Hardy Thomas 1840-1928
The Dynasts
War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
Herbert George 1593-1633
He that makes a good war makes a good peace.
Herodotus c.485-425 BC
In peace, sons bury their father; in war, fathers bury their sons.
Izetbegovic Alija 1925-
(after signing accord between Serbia and Croatia)
And to my people I say, this may not be a just peace, but it
is more just than a continuation of war.
James I King (James VI of Scotland) 1566-
(recorded by Archdeacon Plume)
Dr Donne's verses are like the peace of God; they pass all understanding.
John Paul I I Pope 1920-
In contrast with its original vocation of peace, the family is sadly seen to be the
scene of tension and oppression.
John Paul I I Pope 1920-
Religion and peace go together, to wage war in the name of religion is a contradiction.
Joyce James 1882-1941
"Sleep now, O sleep now"
My kiss will give peace now
And quiet to your hear -
Sleep on in peace now,
O you unquiet heart!
Keats John 1795-1821
‘Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil'
And she forgot the stars, the moon, and sun,
And she forgot the blue above the trees,
And she forgot the dells where waters run,
And she forgot the chilly autumn breeze;
She had no knowledge when the day was done,
And the new morn she saw not; but in peace
Hung over her sweet Basil evermore,
And moistened it with tears unto the core.
Kennedy John F. 1917-1963
(inaugarul address)
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered
by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage - and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this
nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.
King Martin Luther 1929-1968
The Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councillor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.
Koestler Arthur 1905-1983
The policy of European integration is in reality a question of war and peace in the 21 st century.