Peace quotes

Words about ending conflict, avoiding war and living together in harmony.

• The fact is that we cannot have it both ways. Can we be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war?

• After a period of confrontation, we are entering an era of negotiation.

• The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.

• The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

• Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with conflict by peaceful means.

• We want no wars of conquest; we must avoid the temptation of territorial aggression.

• War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed; peace is preferable to war in almost every contingency.

• Gentlemen, let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not conflict, and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

• My policy is trust, peace, and to put aside the bayonet.

• We should recollect also that the season of peace is best adapted to these preparations.

• We owe it, therefore, to candor and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety.

• Only a peace between equals can last.

• Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished.

• Starting an atomic war is totally unthinkable for rational men.

• Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

• Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.