“My third appeal is to my fellow citizens in all countries: Help us to establish lasting peace in the world.”
– Joseph Rotblat
“A peace deal requires agreements, and you don’t make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.”
– Richard Holbrooke
“All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind.”
– Eisaku Sato
“Several studies, and a number of public statements by senior military and political personalities, testify that – except for disputes between the present nuclear states – all military conflicts, as well as threats to peace, can be dealt with using conventional weapons.”
– Joseph Rotblat
“Men may yearn for peace, cry for peace, and work for peace, but there will be no peace until they follow the path pointed out by the Living Christ. He is the true light of men’s lives.”
– David O. McKay
“Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process.”
– Martin McGuinness
“There is a split between Muslims who want to practice their faith in peace and tolerance with other religions and other people, and these extreme, radical fundamentalists who have shown a total lack of tolerance for people with different views, starting with people who they don’t think are good Muslims, and going on to include Christians and Jews.”
– Richard Holbrooke
“Well, I think by any expectation South Africa has come a tremendously long way. We’ve seen a society that many people thought couldn’t withstand a peaceful transition to democracy without a great deal of violence, in fact, make that transition and do it in relative peace and security.”
– Susan Rice
“United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they’re trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.”
– Richard Holbrooke
“Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice.”
– John McCain
“It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war.”
– Elihu Root
“Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.”
– Jenny Shipley
“Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others.”
– Elihu Root
“Getting rid of Bin Laden is good for the cause of peace worldwide but what counts is to overcome the discourse and the methods – the violent methods – that were created and encouraged by Bin Laden and others in the world.”
– Ismail Haniyeh
“I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.”
– Wangari Maathai
“It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. – Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary.”
– Gerrit Smith
“The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man’s original savage nature.”
– Elihu Root
“True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.”
– Gerrit Smith
“The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.”
– Elihu Root
“I have often supported Israel, I have often visited the country and want the country to exist and at last find peace with its neighbours.”
– Gunter Grass
“The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.”
– Elihu Root
“We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan.”
– Geraldine Ferraro
“The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.”
– Elihu Root
“I wish the Peace Corps and its volunteers continued success and perseverance. We are grateful for their contributions to society and dedication to providing assistance where it is needed. May the Peace Corps continue its legacy of service, both at home and abroad.”
– Kenny Marchant
“To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag.”
– Pauline Hanson
“Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.”
– John Boyd Orr
“The Peace Corps is an outstanding organization that promotes peace through helping countless individuals who want to help build a better life for the community in which they serve.”
– Solomon Ortiz
“Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1, 2006.”
– Solomon Ortiz
“In addition to serving overseas, the Peace Corps’ Crisis Corps Volunteers have helped their fellow Americans.”
– Solomon Ortiz
“I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke.”
– Michael Ignatieff