I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.  ~Dwight Eisenhower

A warless world will come as men develop warless hearts.  ~Charles Wesley BurnsCOE

One must look hard through history to find when a clear understanding of the truth moved anyone to fire the first shot.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

The pacifist’s task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.  ~Vera Brittain, 1964

There is one armor that the world of men and women, as a world, has never yet put on.  The churches have long bungled with its fastenings, but the world has gone unfended, and few have been those in whose hands the mystical sword of the spirit has shone with daily use.  This armor, waiting to be worn, is the armor of brotherhood and sacrifice, the world of unselfishness, a conquering sword, with the power, where used, to unite the world in love.  And there are none who may not put it on.  ~M.A. DeWolfe HoweCOE

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.  ~Mother Teresa

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.  ~John Andrew Holmes, Wisdom in Small Doses

The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.  ~Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

In the name of peace
They waged the wars
Ain’t they got no shame
~Nikki Giovanni

Peace hath higher tests of manhood
Than battle ever knew.
~John Greenleaf Whittier

We have all taken risks in the making of war.  Isn’t it time that we should take risks to secure peace?  ~J. Ramsay MacDonaldCOE

I take it that what all men are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace.  ~James Conrad

Right is more precious than peace.  ~Woodrow WilsonGCLE