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"True peace is not merely the absence of
tension: it is the presence of justice." - Martin Luther King Jr.
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"A bad peace is even worse than war." -
Tacitus
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"If I must choose between righteousness and
peace, I choose righteousness." - Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919,
Twenty-Sixth President of the United States of America from 1901-1909,
recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize)
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"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible
to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!" - Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919,
Twenty-Sixth President of the United States of America from 1901-1909,
recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize)
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"Rome remained free for four hundred years
and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time;
but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in
less than forty years." - Nicolo Machiavelli
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"My first wish is to see this plague of
mankind, war, banished from the earth." - George Washington (1732-1799,
First President of the United States of America from 1789-1797)
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"To be prepared for war is one of the most
effectual means of preserving peace." - George Washington (1732-1799, First
President of the United States of America from 1789-1797)
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"If we desire to avoid insult, we must be
able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful
instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all
times ready for War." - George Washington (1732-1799, First President of the
United States of America from 1789-1797)
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"It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy
from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is
the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous
as the violence of the wolf." - Thomas Paine
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"Peace and justice are two sides of the same
coin." - Dwight Eisenhower (1890-1969, Thirty-Fourth President of the United
States of America from 1953-1961)
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"Though force can protect in emergency, only
justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the
dawn of eternal peace." - Dwight Eisenhower (1890-1969, Thirty-Fourth
President of the United States of America from 1953-1961)
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"It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure
peace only by preparing for war." - John F. Kennedy (1917-1963,Thirty-Fifth
President of the United States of America from 1961-1963)
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"If you will not fight for the right when you
can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory
will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will
have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of
survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there
is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as
slaves." - Winston Churchill
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"Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is
elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you
automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of
remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is
not with me is against me.'"" - George Orwell
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"We make war that we may live in peace." -
Aristotle
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"Let him who desires peace prepare for war."
- Vegetius
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"Peace is not merely a distant goal that we
seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal." - Martin Luther King Jr.
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"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be
purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!" -
Patrick Henry
Peace Requires Justice
