James Madison Quotes

If the inner world is inundated with peace, then the nightmare of world war cannot even come into being.

A world without war is not in the cards.

My first wish is, to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements, and exercising them, for the destruction of mankind.

What really matters is that we should all of us realize that we are guilty of inhumanity. The horror of this realization should shakes us out of our lethargy so that we can direct our hopes and our intentions to the coming of an era in which war will have no place.

If I ruled the world Imagine that...

There will be no universal peace until the Prince of Peace appears.

World peace will never come until the passion of supremacy is combated.

God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it.

We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering.

If I could cause world peace by taking someone out to lunch, I'd go, 'Well, war isn't that terrible.'

The idea that if people are just friendly and demonstrate they want peace, that will be answered with good will - that is really naive.

We desire the good of the world and the happiness of the nations that the bonds of affection and unity between the sons of men should be strengthened... what harm is there in this?... these fruitless strifes, these ruinous wars shall pass away, and the 'Most Great Peace' shall come.

Why can't the world be like a summer day, when I thought that health care would be an ethical decision and wars existed only to be stopped?

We are here to make a choice between the quick and the dead.... We must elect World Peace or World Destruction.

One looks ahead to a war and imagines it as a single, final, absolute event. It is nothing of the kind. War is a condition, like peace, with good days and bad days, moods of optimism and despair.

Our purpose is to abolish war and bloodshed from the face of the earth

Numerous technicians in every state are doing their utmost to achieve the dream of free, unlimited flight and it is precisely here where changes can be made which would have a radical effect on our whole way of life. The borders between countries would lose their significance, because they could not be closed off from each other. Linguistic differences would disappear, as human mobility increased. National defense would cease to devour the best resources of nations as it would become impossible in itself. And the necessity of resolving disagreements among nations in some other way than by bloody battles would, in its turn, lead us to eternal peace.

The laws were framed by certain well-meaning visionaries who, building republics in the air, have tried to reach political perfection on the assumption that humanity is perfect. So we have had philosophers instead of leaders, philanthropy instead of legislation, dialectic instead of tactics, and sophists instead of soldiers.

It's not going to be easy to create a world where both sides prefer peace, but we have to try.

On this International Day of Peace, let us dare to imagine a world free of conflict and violence

If world peace was as important to people as getting tweeted back by their favorite celebrity, we'd live in a blissful Utopia.

There is one ray of hope. It seems to me that today the responsible leaders of the several peoples have, in the main, the honest will to abolish war.

...I believe, with Gandhi, that we need to take an imaginative leap forward toward fresh and generous idealism for the sake of all humanity - that we neeed to renew this ancient wisdom of nonviolence, to strive for a disarmed world, and to create a culture of nonviolence.

As we watch the world embrace the Olympics in the coming days, let us remember why the modern Olympics came into being: to bring nations closer together, to have the youth of the world compete in sports, rather than fight in war. As long as we believe our own war-driven thoughts, there will always be war, in ourselves, in our families, and in our world. As long as we believe our thoughts, there will always be war.

Christ alone can bring lasting peace - peace with God - peace among men and nations - and peace within our hearts.