Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Tecumseh Sherman

But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.

William Ralph Inge

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

William Butler Yeats

We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.

William Butler Yeats

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.

Walter Ulbricht

Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.

Walter Ulbricht

The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful prosperity.

Yitzhak Rabin

Peace will be victorious.

Yitzhak Rabin

Peace has no borders.

Yitzhak Rabin

I, serial number 30743, Lieutenant General in reserves Yitzhak Rabin, a soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces and in the army of peace , I, who have sent armies into fire and soldiers to their death , say today: We sail onto a war which has no casualties, no wounded, no blood nor suffering. It is the only war which is a pleasure to participate in the war for peace.

Winifred Holtby

There's never been a lack of men willing to die bravely. The trouble is to find a few able to live sensibly.

Winston Churchill

Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will stand in awe.

Winston Churchill

It is not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future. Still, I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate, that in the days to come the British and American peoples will for their own safety and for the good of all walk together side by side in majesty, in justice, and in peace.

Winston Churchill

Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter.

Winston Churchill

In War: Resolution, In Defeat: Defiance, In Victory: Magnaminity In Peace: Good Will.

Winston Churchill

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.

Winston Churchill

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

Winston Churchill

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Winston Churchill

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

Tony Snow

The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.

Tony Snow

The last person to achieve unambiguous victory in an air war was Zeus.

Samuel Johnson

Mutual cowardice keeps us in peace.

Samuel Johnson

As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.

Rufus Wainwright

I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's 'War and Peace' everyday.

Ronald Reagan

I once played a sheriff who thought he could do the job without a gun. I was dead in twenty-seven minutes of a thirty minute show.

Ronald Reagan

Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace.

William Hazlitt

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

William Hazlitt

If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.

William Hazlitt

If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them as the dial does of those that are clouded.

Wendell Berry

Those who say Islam is a warlike religion must ask if Christianity has been as well.

Yann Martel

There's no peace like the peace of an inner courtyard on a sunny day.

Wyndham Lewis

If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble.

Willie Nelson

I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason.

William Penn

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.