Elizabeth II Quotes

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

A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all.

Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.

War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser; rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves.

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

Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in Heaven and Earth, is brought to an end.

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

We will never bring peace at the hands of war. As a species we have to rise above it.

The difficulties of peace are better than the agony of war

Peace at home. Peace in the world.

War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.

Europe is a world where men have decided to die together because they are unable to find a way to live together

What repeated follies are those repeated wars! You do not want to conquer and govern one another. Why, then, should you be continually employed in injuring and destroying one another? How many excellent things might have been done to promote the internal welfare of each country; what bridges, roads, canals, and other useful public works and institutions, tending to the common felicity, might have been made and established with the money and men foolishly spent during the last seven centuries by our mad wars in doing one another mischief! You are near neighbors, and each have very respectable qualities. Learn to be quiet and to respect each other's rights. You are all Christians.

I want to work for peace, not for war.

We are not seeking... and looking for war with any nations. We are seeking peace and stability among all the nations in the region.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.

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.

I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners.

I am against all war.

Peace must be more than the absence of war.

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