Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Only by addressing the root causes of conflict and disputes can we hope to find lasting peace in a just and equitable world.

You do not get peace by shouting: Peace. Peace is a meaningless word; what we need is a glorious peace.

The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason.

For a just and lasting peace, here is my solemn pledge to you: by dedication and patience we will continue, as long as I remain your President, to work for this simple - this single - this exclusive goal.

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

Working for peace in the future is to work for peace in the present moment.

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

Real peace is more than the absence of war; it is an absence of the causes of war.

War is not the answer. Violence is not the solution. A more peaceful world is possible.

Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods.

The peace dividend is peace.

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 not everything, but without peace, everything is nothing.

Peace is never a perfect achievement.

Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, “What kind of peace?

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

We are living in a time of many wars. The call for peace must be shouted. Peace sometimes gives the impression of being quiet, but it is never quiet. Peace if always proactive and dynamic.

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.

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.

No achievement can be higher than that of working in harmony with other nations so that the lash of war may be lifted from our backs and a peace of lasting friendship descend upon us.

I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural process.

No more war, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind.

War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!

Peace is not something you wish for, it's something you make