The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.
RICHARD NIXON, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1969
Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict. Only a just peace based on the inherent rights and dignity of every individual can truly be lasting.
BARACK OBAMA, Nobel Lecture, Dec. 10, 2009
Military power serves the cause of security by making prohibitive the cost of any aggressive attack. It serves the cause of peace by holding up a shield behind which the patient constructive work of peace can go on.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, State of the Union Address, Jan. 9, 1958
Can you conceive of anything that so represents the glory, and truth, and marvelousness of God's nature as the idea of peace?
E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words
Let us build a structure of peace in the world in which the weak are as safe as the strong — in which each respects the right of the other to live by a different system — in which those who would influence others will do so by the strength of their ideas, and not by the force of their arms. Let us accept that high responsibility not as a burden, but gladly — gladly because the chance to build such a peace is the noblest endeavor in which a nation can engage.
RICHARD NIXON, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1973
All true conflict should aim at peace.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
The belief that peace is desirable is rarely enough to achieve it. Peace requires responsibility. Peace entails sacrifice.
BARACK OBAMA, Nobel Lecture, Dec. 10, 2009
An army in peace is like an overcoat in July--not useful, but not to be thrown away.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. And now, as in no other age, we seek it because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, Second Inaugural Address, Jan. 21, 1957
Any nation that decides the only way to achieve peace is through peaceful means is a nation that will soon be a piece of another nation.
RICHARD NIXON, No More Vietnams
Peace is an attribute of the highest power.
E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words
Peace often seems the one thing fair and desirable, so that the cloister or the forest, or the vessel on the lonesome sea, is the most grateful object of imagination.
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY, Human Nature and the Social Order
Peace is the bright star of the world.
The only answer to a regime that wages total cold war is to wage total peace.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, State of the Union Address, Jan. 9, 1958
Short of changing human nature ... the only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.
RICHARD NIXON, Real Peace
The firmest security of peace is the preparation during peace of the defenses of war.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1825
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