Dom Pedro I Quotes

I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country.

If I could cause world peace by taking someone out to lunch, I'd go, 'Well, war isn't that terrible.'

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

I'll keep peace at all cost, even if I choke to death on my tongue.

By the blood that flows in my veins and upon my honor, I swear to God to free Brazil!

When we, the Workers, all demand: “What are we fighting for?’… Then, then we’ll end that stupid crime, that devil’s madness--War.

A voluntary deed is infinitely more precious to our national ideas and spirit than a thousandfold poured from the treasury.

I am not—as I am sure I will be charged—for peace at any price, but for an honorable rational, and political solution to this [the Vietnam] war.

The cause of world peace is much more important than any individual.

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 made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.

I do know that you have to choose between the logic of reconciliation and the logic of justice. Pure justice leads to new civil war. I prefer the negotiable revolution.

What's so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It's like a shock and aw shucks campaign.

I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression.

Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction.

I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.

There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation.

Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

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.

The idea that if people are just friendly and demonstrate they want peace, that will be answered with good will - that is really naive.

We want peace, but not at any price.

War is over if you want it.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

We should all spend some time of our life doing service to our country. To me, I would give up a couple of years.