Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander McCall Smith

Botswana is actually very peaceful. It's democratic. It never was in debt. They've been fortunate, they've had diamonds.

E. P. Thompson

I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.

E. Stanley Jones

A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is -- a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves.

E. M. Forster

Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.

Douglas MacArthur

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

Douglas MacArthur

Blank cartridges should never be used against a mob, nor should a volley be fired over the heads of the mob even if there is little danger of hurting persons in the rear. Such things will be regarded as an admission of weakness, or an attempt to bluff, and may do more harm than good.

Douglas MacArthur

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.

Douglas MacArthur

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

Douglas MacArthur

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

Dorothy Thompson

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

Donald Trump

We want to achieve a stable, peaceful world with less conflict and more common ground.

Duke of Wellington

I have seen their backs before.

Duke of Wellington

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

Douglas William Jerrold

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

Douglas William Jerrold

Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.

Dorothy Day

It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living.

Dorothy Day

No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.

Donald Rumsfeld

There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that's just a fact.

Don Henley

In forty-five minutes, it'll all be done. We'll all be good and crispy, but we'll still be number one.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The peace we seek and need means much more than mere absence of war. It means the acceptance of law, and the fostering of justice, in all the world.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

There can be no true disarmament without peace, and there can be no real peace without very material disarmament.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Having established as our goals a lasting world peace with justice and the security of freedom on this earth, we must be prepared to make whatever sacrifices are demanded as we pursue this path to its end.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

For all that we cherish and justly desire - for ourselves or for our children - the securing of peace is the first requisite.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The day will come when the people will make so insistent their demand that there be peace in the world that the Governments will get out of the way and let them have peace.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

So - our readiness to meet and defeat this kind of possible attack is forced upon us, both as a potent preventive of actual war and to insure survival in event of attack. This alertness to danger has to be translated into specific policies and activities in the several parts of the world where our rights - our way of life - can be seriously damaged. Work of this kind occupies my days and nights.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The building of such a peace is a bold and solemn purpose. To proclaim it is easy. To serve it will be hard. And to attain it, we must be aware of its full meaning - and ready to pay its full price.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The only answer to a regime that wages total cold war is to wage total peace.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

For a just and lasting peace, here is my solemn pledge to you: by dedication and patience we will continue, as long as I remain your President, to work for this simple - this single - this exclusive goal.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

As for myself and for the Secretary of State and others involved, including those in the Legislature, we stand ready to do anything, to meet with anyone, anywhere, as long as we may do so in self-respect, demanding the respect due this Nation, and there is any slightest idea or chance of furthering this great cause of peace.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I have said time and again there is no place on this earth to which I would not travel, there is no chore I would not undertake if I had any faintest hope that, by so doing, I would promote the general cause of world peace.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

In vast stretches of the earth, men awoke today in hunger. They will spend the day in unceasing toil. And as the sun goes down they will still know hunger. They will see suffering in the eyes of their children. Many despair that their labor will ever decently shelter their families or protect them against disease. So long as this is so, peace and freedom will be in danger throughout our world. For wherever free men lose hope of progress, liberty will be weakened and the seeds of conflict will be sown.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

There can be no peace without law.