Favorite Quotes

By Famous People

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
William J. Clinton

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
Nathan Hale

Sometimes questions are more important than answers.
Nancy Willard

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
Henry David Thoreau

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
Dag Hammarskjold

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mohandas Gandhi

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
Benjamin Franklin

All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.
Oscar W. Firkins

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch Benedict de Spinoza

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa

Peace begins with a smile.
Mother Teresa

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
Eleanor Roosevelt

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
William Shakespeare

Men like war: they do not hold much sway over birth, so they make up for it with death. Unlike women, men menstruate by shedding other people's blood.
Lucy Ellman

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
Herbert Hoover

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
Thomas Mann

Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.
Francis Meehan

What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.
Robert E. Lee

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A couple of my own favorites:

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
H. L. Mencken

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Will Durant

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
Otto Von Bismarck

If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.
Otto Von Bismarck