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Quotes About Peace

Our nation must come together to unite.
~ George W. Bush
When you know you have unconditional love, there is no point in rebellion and no need to fear failure.
~ George W. Bush
No, I know all the war rhetoric, but it's all aimed at achieving peace.
~ George W. Bush
The struggle in the Holy Land is no longer Palestinian versus Israeli, or Muslim versus Jew. It is between those who seek peace and extremists who promote terror.
~ George W. Bush
America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.
~ George W. Bush
I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully.
~ George W. Bush
I had taken office during a raging intifada, with Yasser Arafat running the Palestinian Authority, Israeli leaders committed to a Greater Israel policy, and Arab nations complaining from the sidelines. By the time I left, the Palestinians had a president and prime minister who rejected terrorism. The Israelis had withdrawn from some settlements and supported a two-state solution. And Arab nations were playing an active role in the peace process.
~ George W. Bush
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
~ George Washington
There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy
~ George Washington
Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. I had hoped that liberal and enlightened thought would have reconciled the Christians so that their religious fights would not endanger the peace of Society.
~ George Washington
A bad war is fought with a good mind.
~ George Washington
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
~ George Washington
Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.
~ George Washington
May the Children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other Inhabitants; while every one shall sit under his own vine and fig tree, and there shall be none to make him afraid.
~ George Washington
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth
~ George Washington
Envious of none, I am determined to be pleased with all, and this, my dear friend, being the order for my march, I will move gently down the stream of life until I sleep with my fathers.
~ George Washington
To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
~ George Washington
Lay waste all the settlements around... that the country may not be merely overrun, but destroyed ... listen to any overture of peace before the total ruin of their settlements is effected.
~ George Washington
It is best to be silent, for there is nothing more certain than that it is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends.
~ George Washington
It seems we only sleep well in our own bed.
~ Georges Perec
As soon as you close your eyes, the adventure of sleep begins. -from A Man Asleep
~ Georges Perec
Ne kimseyi görme, ne konuÅŸma, düÅŸünme, d??ar? ç?kma, yerinden k?m?ldama isteÄŸi duyuyorsun.
~ Georges Perec
You no longer need excuses, regrets, nostalgia, You reject nothing, you refuse nothing. You have ceased going forward, but that is because you weren't going forward anyway, you're not setting off again, you have arrived, you can see no reason to go any further.
~ Georges Perec
Dissonance is as fatal in ailments of the mind as it is in those of the body.
~ Georges Rodenbach