Quotes related to Matthew 5:9
We must create world-wide law and law enforcement as we outlaw world-wide war and weapon
— John F. Kennedy
The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
We still seek no wider war.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare.
— Theodore Roosevelt
We are living in a time of many wars. The call for peace must be shouted. Peace sometimes gives the impression of being quiet, but it is never quiet. Peace if always proactive and dynamic.
— Pope Francis
Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.
— Martin Luther
We ain't goin' study war no more.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If wars in the future are to be prevented the nations must be united in their determination to keep the peace under law.
— Harry S. Truman
The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war.
— John F. Kennedy
There is an alternative to war. It's staying in bed and growing your hair.
— John Lennon
It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself.
— Thomas Jefferson
Nations with nations mix'd confus'dly die, and lost in one promiscuous carnage lie.
— Joseph Addison