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Douglas MacArthurToday the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain with death -- the seas bear only commerce -- men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight. The entire world lies quietly at peace. The holy mission has been completed. And in reporting this to you, the people, I speak for the thousands of silent lips, forever stilled among the jungles and the beaches and in the deep waters of the Pacific which marked the way.

 - Douglas MacArthur

Tags:   Pacific  peace  tragedy  war  

Mother TeresaWhat can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

 - Mother Teresa

Tags:   family  love  peace  

Milan KunderaDogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.

 - Milan Kundera

Tags:   dogs  paradise  peace  

Bernard BaruchPeace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race. Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions. We must embrace international cooperation or international disintegration. Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human dignity.

 - Bernard Baruch

Tags:   atoms  cooperation  evil  good  peace  

Elisabeth Kübler-RossThere is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.

 - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Tags:   garden  peace  silence  

Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHe is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Tags:   happiness  home  peace  

Marcus AureliusNowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

 - Marcus Aurelius

Tags:   peace  retreat  solitude  soul  

Khalil GibranYou talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.

 - Khalil Gibran

Tags:   peace  talk  thoughts  

Niccolo MachiavelliHe who makes war his profession cannot be otherwise than vicious. War makes thieves, and peace brings them to the gallows.

 - Niccolò Machiavelli

Tags:   peace  profession  vicious  war  

Thomas PaineThe supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand, arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside. And while a single nation refuses to lay them down, it is proper that all should keep them up. Horrid mischief would ensue were one-half the world deprived of the use of them; for while avarice and ambition have a place in the heart of man, the weak will become a prey to the strong. The history of every age and nation establishes these truths, and facts need but little arguments when they prove themselves.

 - Thomas Paine

Tags:   arms  defense  peace  power  

Mahatma GandhiIn the democracy which I have envisaged, a democracy established by non-violence, there will be equal freedom for all. Everybody will be his own master. It is to join a struggle for such democracy that I invite you today. Once you realize this you will forget the differences between the Hindus and Muslims, and think of yourselves as Indians only, engaged in the common struggle for independence.

 - Mahatma Gandhi

Tags:   democracy  freedom  independence  peace  violence  

We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace. There is one sign the Soviets can make that would be unmistakable, that would advance dramatically the cause of freedom and peace. General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

 - Ronald Reagan

Douglas MacArthurThe Long Gray Line has never failed us. Were you to do so, a million ghosts in olive drab, in brown khaki, in blue and gray, would rise from their white crosses thundering those magic words: Duty, Honor, Country.This does not mean that you are war mongers.On the contrary, the soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

 - Douglas MacArthur

Tags:   country  duty  honor  military  peace  soldiers  suffering  

Dwight EisenhowerTo all the peoples of the world, I once more give expression to America's prayerful and continuing aspiration: We pray that peoples of all faiths, all races, all nations, may have their great human needs satisfied; that those now denied opportunity shall come to enjoy it to the full; that all who yearn for freedom may experience its spiritual blessings; that those who have freedom will understand, also, its heavy responsibilities; that all who are insensitive to the needs of others will learn charity; that the scourges of poverty, disease and ignorance will be made to disappear from the earth, and that, in the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love.

 - Dwight Eisenhower

Tags:   freedom  love  peace  respect  responsibility  

Bernard BaruchMy fellow citizens of the world, we are here to make a choice between the quick and the dead. . .

Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work our salvation. . .We must elect world peace or world destruction.

 - Bernard Baruch

Tags:   destruction  peace  war  

Bernard BaruchLet us not be deceived -- we are today in the midst of a cold war. Our enemies are to befound abroad and at home. Let us never forget this: Our unrest is the heart of their success. The peace of the world is the hope and the goal of our political system; it is the despair and defeat of those who stand against us.

 - Bernard Baruch

Tags:   enemies  peace  war  

Dwight EisenhowerI doubt whether any of these people [pacifists],with their academic or dogmatic hatred of war, detest it as much as I do. They probably have not seen bodies rotting on the ground and smelled the stench of decaying human flesh. . . .what separates me from the pacifists is that I hate the Nazis more than I hate war.

 - Dwight Eisenhower

Tags:   hate  nazis  peace  suffering  war