Abraham Lincoln Quotes

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

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

I am a Nobel Peace laureate and my business should be to try to bring stability, not to be a red rag to bulls.

It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.

We have now to fight for peace with the same courage and deter-mination as we fought against aggression.

One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat

The belief that peace is desirable is rarely enough to achieve it. Peace requires responsibility. Peace entails sacrifice.

Arms alone are not enough to keep the peace. It must be kept by men.

[Peace] cannot be honorable or secure, if the sovereign betrays a pusillanimous aversion to war.

I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country.

My government's first aim will be to bring peace to Mexico.

When I was defense minister, I was very popular, and now that I'm president, I'm unpopular because I'm trying to make peace. It's much easier to make war and get trophies.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. And now, as in no other age, we seek it because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.

Peace is never a perfect achievement.

War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.

The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty... Practical progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope.

Peace is not passive, it is active. Peace is not appeasement, it is strength. Peace does not 'happen,' it requires work.

I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.

Peace is impossible, war is improbable.

One of the most persistent ambiguities that we face is that everybody talks about peace as a goal. However, it does not take sharpest-eyed sophistication to discern that while everbody talks about peace, peace has become practically nobody's business among the power-wielders. Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.

Those good at war aren't good at peace, and those good at peace aren't good at war.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

This world of ours has everything except one thing: peace. Everybody wants and needs peace, whether he be a child or an octogenarian.

All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.