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Rob Helb served as an Army Air Corps gunner and lost an arm over the oil fields of Turkey. After crashing, he asked a crew member to retrieve his bloodied and severed arm so he could remove from its wrist the gold watch his father had given him. (Quote by - Christopher Ward)

Peace be with you. (Quote by - Bible)

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. (Quote by - Dwight D. Eisenhower)

At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace. (Quote by - John Dryden)

Peace hath her victories No less renown'd than war. (Quote by - John Milton)

There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which ... is within the souls of men. (Quote by - Black Elk)

The peace makers shall be called the children of God. (Quote by - Bible)

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb. (Quote by - Turkish Proverb)

Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. (Quote by - Bible)

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it. (Quote by - Eleanor Roosevelt)

Seek peace, and pursue it. Proverbs 34:14 (Quote by - Bible)

War leads to peace. (Quote by - Cicero)

We are completely in bed with the Israelis to the detriment of the Palestinians on the Diane Rehm Show. (Quote by - President Jimmy Carter)

The mask is dropped... They died for Halliburton. (Quote by - David Vest)

And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. (Quote by - Bible)

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. (Quote by - Baruch Spinoza)

Peace with a club in hand is war. (Quote by - Portuguese Proverb)

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace. (Quote by - U. Thant)

Peace is the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God. (Quote by - Anonymous)

If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better. (Quote by - Lyndon Baines Johnson)

In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages. (Quote by - Swami Brahmanada)

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. (Quote by - T.s. Eliot)

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind. (Quote by - Wilkie (William) Collins)

There never was a good war or a bad peace. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)

I would not want to be the one to tell parents of the last man to die in a war termed a mistake that he was dead. (Quote by - Unknown)

A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace. (Quote by - Gersonides)

Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan. (Quote by - Peter Nicols)

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect. (Quote by - Woodrow T. Wilson)

Peace hath higher tests of manhood Than battle ever knew. (Quote by - John Greenleaf Whittier)

There never was a good war, or a bad peace. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work our differences. (Quote by - Harry S. Truman)

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. (Quote by - George Washington)

Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family. (Quote by - Kin Hubbard)

Peace has no borders. (Quote by - Yitzhak rabin)

Roger Normand: Bomb now. Die later. (Quote by - Roger Normand)

Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War. (Quote by - John Milton)

Our commander said the Viet Cong are farmers by day.. guerillas by night. Look for those who are tired. So anyone who yawned was getting popped. (Quote by - Seymour Hersh)

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age. (Quote by - Adlai E. Stevenson)

Right human relations is the only true peace. (Quote by - Alice A. Bailey)

For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war. (Quote by - Cicero)

O for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade; Where rumor of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more. (Quote by - William Cowper)

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. (Quote by - Moshe Dayan)

Bring to a boil Add oil Then bomb Ms Roy is author of the God of Small Things. (Quote by - Arundhati Roy)

The gentleman (Quote by - Henry Clay)

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people. (Quote by - Jawaharlal Nehru)

Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)

And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. (Quote by - Bible)

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)

No tree has branches so foolish as to fight among themselves. Ojibway Tribe. (Quote by - Ojibway Trobe)

A severe war lurks under the show of peace. (Quote by - Claudian)

Peace is the gift of God. Do you want peace? Go to God. Do you want peace in four families? Go to God. Do you want peace to brood over your families? If you do, live your religion, and the very peace of God will dwell and abide with you, for that is where peace comes from, and it doesn't dwell anywhere else. (Quote by - John Taylor)

Those who say Islam is a warlike religion must ask if Christianity has been as well. (Quote by - Wendell Berry)

The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war. (Quote by - Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit)

All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own. (Quote by - Oscar W. Firkins)

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace. (Quote by - Muhammad Ali)

One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force. (Quote by - David Borenstein)

Peace is a militant state, which is not secured by wishful thinking.... If we are to be sure of our liberty, we must be ready to fight for it. (Quote by - General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright)

To get Peace you must work for Justice. (Quote by - John Paul VI)

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith. (Quote by - John Foster Dulles)

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace. (Quote by - Andre Gide)

Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place! (Quote by - Lord Byron)

Peace originates with the flow of things — its heart is like the movement of the wind and waves. The Way is like the veins that circulate blood through our bodies, following the natural flow of the life force. If you are separated in the slightest from that divine essence, you are far off the path. (Quote by - Morihei Uyeshiba)

Peace is more precious than a piece of land. (Quote by - Anwar Sadat)

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. (Quote by - Mother Teresa)

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time. (Quote by - Charles F. Kettering)

The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies. (Quote by - Basil O'Connor)

Peace is a two way road of conflict and compromise. (Quote by - Ronald Thomas)

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war. (Quote by - Lord Byron)

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

Don't tell me peace has broken out. (Quote by - Bertolt Brecht)

All we are saying is give peace a chance. (Quote by - John Lennon)

Mark! where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it--peace! (Quote by - Lord Byron)

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it. (Quote by - Eleanor Roosevelt)

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil. (Quote by - Frank McKinney Kin Hubbard)

We're waist deep in the Big Muddy and the big fool says to push on singing about an incident in which marine recruits died driven to their deaths by an officer. (Quote by - Pete Seeger)

The wolf shall also dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. (Quote by - Bible)

Peace is more important than all justice; and was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace. (Quote by - Martin Luther)

Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keep peace. (Quote by - William Cowper)

Nor is heaven always at peace. (Quote by - Claudian)

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace. (Quote by - Geraldine A. Ferraro)

The trenchant blade Toledo trusty. For want of fighting was grown rusty, And ate into itself for lack Of somebody to hew and hack. (Quote by - Samuel Butler (1))

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful. (Quote by - Johann Von Schiller)

Peace is not a season, it is a way of life. (Quote by - Anonymous)

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way. (Quote by - A. J. Muste)

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time. (Quote by - Lyndon Baines Johnson)

Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish though eternal peace. (Quote by - Adolf Hitler)

You bring young men together.. put them in a confined space.. and then give them a license to kill re war. (Quote by - Victor Davis Hanson)

And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. (Quote by - Bible)

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others. (Quote by - Peace Pilgrim)

But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in. (Quote by - D. H. Lawrence)

There was false propaganda by the administration that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and that Al Qaeda was connected to Saddam Hussein. (Quote by - President Jimmy Carter)

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned. (Quote by - Dag Hammarskjold)

And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house. (Quote by - Bible)

Such subtle covenants shall be made, Till peace itself is war in masquerade. (Quote by - John Dryden)

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life. (Quote by - Indian Proverb)

Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep! He hath awaken from the dream of life! (Quote by - Percy Bysshe Shelley)

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war. (Quote by - Georges Clemenceau)

Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. (Quote by - Bible)

President Sadat was killed by an extremist Muslim President Rabin was killed by an extremist Jew Mahatma Gandhi was killed by an extremist Hindu at Cleveland City Club.. to which could be added: Many American soldiers have been killed by extremist Christians. (Quote by - Prince Bandar Bin Sultan)

Peace proposals unaccompanied by a sworn covenant indicate a plot. (Quote by - Tzu Sun)

This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For gentle peace in freedom's hallowed shade. (Quote by - John Quincy Adams)

Peace is our gift to each other. (Quote by - Elie Wiesel)

I was a bombadier in WW 2. When you are up 30,000 feet you do not hear the screams or smell the blood or see those without limbs or eyes. It was not til I read Hersey's Hiroshima that I realized what bomber pilots do. (Quote by - Howard Zinn)

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker. (Quote by - Richard M. Nixon)

For my brethren and companions' sake, I will now ask, Peace be with thee. (Quote by - Bible)

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war. (Quote by - John Andrew Holmes)

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations — entangling alliances with none. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)

10 million people marched against the war on 5 continents in the most united opposition to war ever seen in history. Not in a single European country was opposition to the war less than 89%. (Quote by - Arundhati Roy)

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace, the pursuit must go on. (Quote by - John Fitzgerald Kennedy)

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)

How many have been frozen gored starved or blown apart by Hitler, LBJ, Genghis Khan, Churchill, or Bonaparte? (Quote by - Saiom Shriver)

For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe. (Quote by - Larry Eisenberg)

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history. (Quote by - Peace Pilgrim)

The fiercest agonies have shortest reign; And after dreams of horror, comes again The welcome morning with its rays of peace. (Quote by - William Cullen Bryant)

Peace without justice is tyranny. (Quote by - William Allen White)

The dead could not speak against the war from Vietnam. Who to speak for them if not Kerry? (Quote by - Joe Finan)

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. (Quote by - The Bible)

Peace has its victories, but it takes a brave man to win them. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

I take it that what all men are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace. (Quote by - James Conrad)

In peace, sons bury their fathers; in war, fathers bury their sons. (Quote by - Herodotus)

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin. (Quote by - Dwight D. Eisenhower)

One can always win a war, but how does one conquer peace? (Quote by - Michael Holmboe Meyer)

Peace, like charity, begins at home. (Quote by - Franklin Delano Roosevelt)

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed. (Quote by - Unesco)