Lyndon B. Johnson Peace Quotations

All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action.

I am persuaded that the people of the world have no grievances, one against the other. The hopes and desires of a man who tills the soil are about the same whether he lives on the banks of the Colorado or on the banks of the Danube.

Boys, it is just like the Alamo. Somebody should have by God helped those Texans. I'm going to Vietnam.

I wake up 5 a.m. some mornings and hear the planes coming in at National Airport and I think they are bombing me.

In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war; we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.

If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sake - but for the future of our nation's sake. Nothing matters more to the future of our country: not our military preparedness - for armed might is worthless if we lack the brainpower to build world peace; not our productive economy - for we cannot sustain growth without trained manpower; not our democratic system of government - for freedom is fragile if citizens are ignorant.

Europe has been at peace since 1945. But it is a restless peace thats shadowed by the threat of violence. Europe is partitioned. An unnatural line runs through the heart of a very great and a very proud nation [Germany]. History warns us that until this harsh division has been resolved, peace in Europe will never be secure. We must turn to one of the great unfinished tasks of our generationand that unfinished task is making Europe whole again.

The thing I would like to do most is to find somehow to bring peace to the world. It has eluded me.

War is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate. Therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in the world.