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Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.
Sep 10, 2025
We cannot change ideas in the minds of men and races with machine guns or battle ships.
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
But what a cruel thing is war to separate and destroy families and friends.
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody, that is far superior to the discords of war.
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
Somehow we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race which no one can win to a positive contest to harness man's creative genius for the purpose of making peace and prosperity a reality for all of the nations of the world.
We must shift the arms race into a 'peace race'.
The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies
I went into the Army believing that if you want peace you must prepare for war. I now believe that if you prepare thoroughly for war you will get it.
We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament.
There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.
War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
War remains the decisive human failure.
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
I hate it when they say, �He gave his life for his country.� They don�t die for the honor and glory of their country. We kill them.
The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.
Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
War creates peace like hate creates love.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.
Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
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.
From time immemorial, people have talked about peace without achieving it. Do we simply lack enough experience? Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. . . . War may be too much a part of history to be eliminatedever.
We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
If peace . . . only had the music and pageantry of war, there'd be no wars.
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice.
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
Right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.
Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.