Thomas Jefferson Quotes

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

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.

The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing and destroying one another? Peace, brothers, is better than war. In a long and bloody war, we lose many friends, and gain nothing. Let us then live in peace and friendship together, doing to each other all the good we can.

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

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would 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.

Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable.

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.

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

Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors

Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are those dedicated enough to humanity to find a way to avoid war

We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.

If we do not want to die together in war, we must learn to live together in peace.

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

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.

The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.

Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

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

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.