Thomas Paine Quotes

Nothing fairer than peace is given to man to know; Better one peace than countless triumphs

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

Peace is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds

Peace is not everything, but without peace, everything is nothing.

Peace is such a precious jewel that I would give anything for it but truth.

Peace will be victorious.

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

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.

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

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

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

Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.

We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities.

Peace is not in itself a dream, but we know it only as the result of a momentary equilibrium--an accident.

Our best problem-solving resource is peace. Solutions arise easily and naturally out of a peaceful state.

We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody, that is far superior to the discords of war.

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

Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.

Peace - the word evokes the simplest and most cherished dream of humanity. Peace is, and has always been, the ultimate human aspiration. And yet our history overwhelmingly shows that while we speak incessantly of peace, our actions tell a very different story.

Peace means far more than the opposite of war.

Peace is our passion.

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind. In this sense the most insignificant writer can serve peace, where the most powerful tribunals can do nothing.

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

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.