William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes

Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.

Law is always better than war.

We love peace, but not peace at any price.

Peace" is when nobody's shooting. A "just peace" is when our side gets what it wants.

I want peace and am willing to fight for it.

The abolition of war is like the abolition of slavery, a matter of education and civilization.

Perpetual peace is a dream, and not even a beautiful dream, and War is an integral part of God’s ordering of the universe.

Everyone has the right to a peaceful life.

While we shall never weary in the defense of freedom, neither shall we ever abandon the pursuit of peace.

Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy.

True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.

If a nation wants to live in peace with its neighbors, it doesn't keep rattling the saber at them.

A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.

Peace must be more than the absence of war.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.

Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others.

We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.