Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [201-220] of 227 Peace quotesPeace QuotesPeace Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes [After Communism succeeds] ...then, there will come a peace across the earth.~ Josef Stalin The United States Program for General and Complete Disarmament...~ State Department Paper 7277 Another not unimportant consideration is, that the powers of the general government will be, and indeed must be, principally employed upon external objects, such as war, peace, negotiations with foreign powers, and foreign commerce. In its internal operations it can touch but few objects, except to introduce regulations beneficial to the commerce, intercourse, and other relations, between the states, and to lay taxes for the common good. The powers of the states, on the other hand, extend to all objects, which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, and liberties, and property of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the state.~ Joseph Story If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.~ Mother Teresa If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.~ Henry David Thoreau Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.~ Henry David Thoreau Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.~ Thucydides We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.~ Preamble To The United States Constitution You may not be interested in war, but war is very interested in you.~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi It's the misfortune of all Countries, that they sometimes lie under a unhappy necessity to defend themselves by Arms against the ambition of their Governors, and to fight for what's their own. If those in government are heedless of reason, the people must patiently submit to Bondage, or stand upon their own Defence; which if they are enabled to do, they shall never be put upon it, but their Swords may grow rusty in their hands; for that Nation is surest to live in Peace, that is most capable of making War; and a Man that hath a Sword by his side, shall have least occasion to make use of it.~ John Trenchard Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility.~ Bishop Desmond Tutu Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty -- the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.~ Mark Twain In all history, there is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. Only one who knows the disastrous effects of a long war can realize the supreme importance of rapidity in bringing it to a close.~ Sun Tzu All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.~ Sun Tzu Those who excel in war first cultivate their own humanity and justice and maintain their laws and institutions. By these means they make their governments invincible.~ Sun Tzu What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature.~ Voltaire A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.~ Otto von Bismarck No one starts a war -- or rather no one in his senses ought to do so -- without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve in that war and how he intends to conduct it.~ Karl von Clausewitz To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.~ George Washington The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations to have as little political connection as possible... Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalships, interest, humor, or caprice?... It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.~ George Washington Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print