Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Lord, Bless our enemies; have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land.

When we seek reconciliation with our enemies, it is commonly out of a desire to better our own condition, a being harassed and tired out with a state of war, and a fear of some ill accident which we are willing to prevent.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

I have won many trophies in my time, but nothing will ever top helping win the battle for peace in my country.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

I am a peace man except when I wish to fight.

The true object of war fought for God should always be peace.

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

Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans.

War would end if the dead could return.

We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.

Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of their satisfaction. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent peace.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.

When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.

To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

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.

True security is based on people's welfare - on a thriving economy, on strong public health and education programmes, and on fundamental respect for our common humanity. Development, peace, disarmament, reconciliation and justice are not separate from security; they help to underpin it.

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

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.