Famous Quotes & Sayings

Georges Clemenceau

It is easier to make war than to make peace.

Georges Clemenceau

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.

George Whitefield

But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for the truths of the Lord Jesus.

George Will

If there were 10,000 U.S. forces ashore [in Lebanon], authorized to move about, there would be less risk to American lives than there is with an immobile force of 1,300.

George Will

World War II was the last government program that really worked.

Jim Garrison

I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.

Jerry Pournelle

Paradoxically, the few eras of peace were times when men of war had high influence. The Pax Romana was enforced by Caesar's Legions. The Pax Brittanica was enforced by the Royal Navy and His Majesty's Forces.

Jerry Pournelle

Mutually Assured Destruction, MAD, works only as long as it works; it does not know what to do if deterrence fails, for it envisions no defensive capabilities. A deterrent works until it is needed; then one needs defenses.

Jesse Jackson

Peace is the alternative to war, and nonviolence should be seen as the antidote to violence, not simply as its opposite. Nonviolence is more concerned with saving life than with saving face.

Jean Ingelow

Yet there are some resting-places, / Life's untroubled interludes; / Times when neither past nor future / On the soul's deep calm intrudes.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

We know how to organize warfare, but do we know how to act when confronted with peace?

Jackson Browne

Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?

Jackson Browne

You measure peace with guns, progress in megatons. Who's left when the war is won?

George Harrison

If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn't be a problem.

George Harrison

When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.

Chris Hedges

War is addictive. Indeed, it is the most potent narcotic unleashed by mankind.

Fran Lebowitz

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

George Weah

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

George Wald

The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all; and for that I am especially grateful.

George Washington

Should the States reject this excellent Constitution, the probability is, an opportunity will never again offer to cancel another in peacethe next will be drawn in blood.

George Washington

It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.

George Washington

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

George Washington

Peace with all the world is my sincere wish. I am sure it is our true policy, and am persuaded it is the ardent desire of the government.

George Washington

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

George Washington

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

George Washington

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 Santayana

Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

George Santayana

Men have always been the victims of trifles, but when they were uncomfortable and passionate, and in constant danger, they hardly had time to notice what the daily texture of their thoughts was in their calm intervals, whereas with us the intervals are all.

George Santayana

Though the heart wear the garment of its sorrow And be not happy like a naked star, Yet from the thought of peace some peace we borrow, Some rapture from the rapture felt afar.

George Orwell

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

George Orwell

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

George Orwell

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

George Orwell

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.