Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

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

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

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

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

And now, as in no other age, we seek it [peace] because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.

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.

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 civil right which makes other human rights possible. Peace is a precondition for our existence. Peace permits our continued existence.

My dream for Israel is peace, external and internal peace.

Peace is far more preferable to war. [...] I believe that peace is the only path to true security. [...] And there is no question that the only path to peace is through negotiations .

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

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.

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

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.

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

The mere absence of war is not peace.

No more wars, no more bloodshed, and no more threats.

There is no alternative to peace. There is no sense to go to war.

Talking about peace might not be exciting... some say you don't eat peace, but without peace, you don't eat at all.

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

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

Peace is the alternative to war, and nonviolence should be seen as the antidote to violence, not simply as its opposite. Nonviolence is more concerned with saving life than with saving face.

Peace is not passive, it is active. Peace is not appeasement, it is strength. Peace does not 'happen,' it requires work.