Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [141-160] of 227 Peace quotesPeace QuotesPeace Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute.~ James Madison The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation and foreign commerce.~ James Madison The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venal love of fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and duty of peace.~ James Madison War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement.~ James Madison A universal peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary philosophers, or in the breasts of benevolent enthusiasts.~ James Madison No man escapes When freedom fails, The best men rot in filthy jails; And they who cried: “Appease, Appease!” Are hanged by men they tried to please.~ Hiram Mann We will offer the Christian world unheard of peace overtures, and these nations, stupid and decadent, will leap at the chance to be our friends; they will willingly cooperate in their own destruction. Then, when their guard is down, and they have gone to sleep, we will smash them with our clenched fist.~ Dmitri Manuilsky There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else.~ Peyton Conway March The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to Socialism.~ Karl Marx Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem (By the sword we seek peace, but peace only under liberty)~ Massachusetts State Motto What good does it do to ban some guns. All guns should be banned.~ Howard Metzenbaum Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.~ John Stuart Mill Say not, when I have leisure I will study; you may not have leisure.~ The Mishnah Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace. It thus repudiates the doctrine of Pacifism -- born of a renunciation of the struggle and an act of cowardice in the face of sacrifice. War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have courage to meet it. All other trials are substitutes, which never really put men into the position where they have to make the great decision -- the alternative of life or death... ~ Benito Mussolini There is no way to peace; peace is the way.~ A. J. Muste The Constitution supposes what the history of all governments demonstrates, that the executive is the branch of power most interested in war and most prone to it. It has accordingly with studied care, vested the question of war in the legislature. [If a president is successful in bypassing the Congress] it is evident that the people are cheated out of the best ingredients in the government, the safeguards of peace which is the greatest of their blessings.~ Richard M. Nixon There never was a good war," said Franklin. There have indeed been many wars in which a good man must take part, and take part with grave gladness to die if need be, a willing sacrifice, thankful to give life for what is dearer than life, and happy that even by death in war he is serving the cause of peace. But if a war be undertaken for the most righteous end, before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.~ Charles Eliot Norton Men sleep peacefully in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.~ George Orwell Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy.~ Thomas Paine The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.~ Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print