Share this page: All we are saying is give peace a chance... -- John Lennon (1940-80), English songwriter and singer Only a peace between equals can last. -- Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), US president, speech to US Senate, 1917 More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars -- yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments. -- Franklin D Roosevelt (1882-1945), US President The arms race can kill, though the weapons themselves may never be used...by their cost alone, armaments kill the poor by causing them to starve. -- Vatican statement to the United Nations, 1976 And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. -- Isaiah 2:4 He knows peace who has forgotten desire. -- Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2 Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous. -- George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist,critic and social reformer (1856-1950) Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. -- John F Kennedy (1917-63), US President Peace hath her victories No less renowned than war. -- John Milton (1608-74), English poet, in: To the Lord General Cromwell Share this page:

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