Abraham Lincoln Quotes

... the greatest moral victory in the history of civilization if it actually keeps out of a war.

It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way.

I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. I realize the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war... But we have no more urgent task.

War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.

Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong.

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

I have desired as sincerely as any man—I sometimes think more than any other man—that our present difficulties might be settled without the shedding of blood.

I want to work for peace, not for war.

It is accordance with our determination to refrain from aggression and build up a sentiment and practice among nations more favorable to peace, that we ratified a treaty for the limitation of naval armaments made in 1921, earnestly sought for a further extension of this principle in 1927, and have secured the consent of fourteen important nations to the negotiation of a treaty condemning recourse to war, renouncing it is an instrument of national policy, and pledging each other to seek no solution of their disagreements except by pacific means.

I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. . . . No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.

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.

I must say that "Give Peace a Chance" has always seemed to me to be sensible advice.

I think an appeal to arms and to brute force is unbecoming the age in which we live. Would to God that the time had come when there should be no war, and that religion and peace should reign throughout the world.

For we no longer take up "sword against nation," nor do we "learn war any more," having become children of peace, for the sake of Jesus, who is our leader.

On this International Day of Peace, let us all honor those who have suffered from violence. Let us hold in our hearts the ideal of peace.

If thou art of elephant-strength or of lion-claw, still peace is, in my opinion, better than strife.

Weapons are not proper instruments for gentle people; they use them only when they have no other choice. Peace and quiet are what they value. They do not glory in victory.

I believe that for peace a man may, even should, do everything in his power. Nothing in this world could rank higher than peace.

You don't fight for peace sister,' Nahara told me, 'You embrace it.

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.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.