A people free to choose will always choose peace.
Ronald Reagan

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mohandas Gandhi

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
Benjamin Franklin

For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
Irving Babbitt

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
Benjamin Franklin

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
Muhammad Ali

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.
Georges Clemenceau

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
Napoleon Bonaparte

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa

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

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.
Andre Gide

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
Thomas Fuller

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.
David Borenstein

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

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace begins with a smile.
Mother Teresa

Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.
John Greenleaf Whittier

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Peace is its own reward.
Mohandas Gandhi

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch Spinoza

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
George Bernard Shaw

People always make war when they say they love peace.
David Herbert Lawrence

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
Dag Hammarskjold

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

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
William Hazlitt

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
H. L. Mencken

We make war that we may live in peace.
Aristotle

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.
John Andrew Holmes

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.
Geraldine Ferraro