“If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.”– Napoleon Bonaparte Related Quotes “An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.”– George Eliot “It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.”– Arthur Henderson “Of all our dreams today there is none more important – or so hard to realise – than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.”– Lester B. Pearson