Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short-lived achievement.

The best way to end a war is not to begin it.

Peace is the happy, natural state of man; war corruption, his disgrace.

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.

Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way.

But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings.

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

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

A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.

We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.