Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

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Calvin Coolidge, fully John Calvin Coolidge, Jr.

No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace or insure it victory in time of war.

Enough | Guarantee | Peace | Time | War | Wisdom |

John Dewey

The only way to abolish war (is) to make peace heroic.

Peace | War | Wisdom |

George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann or Marian Evans

I could not live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.

God | Peace | Sin | Wisdom |

Albert Einstein

Our schoolbooks glorify war and hide its horrors. They inculcate hatred in the veins of the children. I would teach peace rather than war. I would inculcate love rather than hate.

Children | Hate | Love | Peace | Teach | War | Wisdom |

Albert Einstein

Unless the cause of peace based on law gathers behind it the force and zeal of a religion, it hardly can hope to succeed.

Cause | Force | Hope | Law | Peace | Religion | Wisdom | Zeal |

Thomas Dreier

All progress is made by men of faith who believe in what is right and, what is more important, actually do what is right in their own private affairs. You cannot add to the peace and goodwill of the world if you fail to create an atmosphere of harmony and love right where you live and work.

Faith | Harmony | Important | Love | Men | Peace | Progress | Right | Wisdom | Work | World |

Albert Einstein

In war it serves that we may poison and mutilate each other. In peace it has made our lives hurried and uncertain. Instead of freeing us in great measure from spiritually exhausting labor, it has made men into slaves of machinery, who for the most part complete their monotonous long days' work with disgust and must continually tremble for their poor rations.

Labor | Men | Peace | War | Wisdom | Work |

Frederic Eggleston, fully Sir Frederic William Eggleston

The great task of peace is to work morals into it. The only sort of peace that will be real is one in which everybody takes his share or responsibility. World organizations and conferences will be of no value unless there is improvement in the relation of men to men.

Improvement | Men | Peace | Responsibility | Will | Wisdom | Work | World | Value |

Albert Einstein

Taking an active part in the solution of the problems of peace is a moral duty which no conscientious man can shirk.

Duty | Man | Peace | Problems | Wisdom |

George Farquhar

'Tis safest making peace with sword in hand.

Peace | Wisdom |

Joseph Francis Flannelly

If there is to be peace in the world, peace must be established first in every human heart. All the trouble in the world is due to selfishness. It always has been and always will be.

Heart | Peace | Selfishness | Will | Wisdom | World | Trouble |

Harry Emerson Fosdick

The very core of peace and love is imagination. All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.

Altruism | Imagination | Love | Peace | Wisdom |

Robert Devereux, Lord Essex, 2nd Earl of Essex

Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.

Genius | Mankind | Peace | Respect | Wisdom | Respect | Happiness |

François Fénelon, fully Francois de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon

How different the peace of god from that of the world! It calms the passions, preserves the purity of conscience, is inseparable from righteousness, unites us to God and strengthens us against temptations. The peace of the soul consists in an absolute resignation to the will of God.

Absolute | Conscience | God | Peace | Purity | Resignation | Righteousness | Soul | Will | Wisdom | World | God |

Felix Frankfurter

Government... is neither business, nor technology, nor applied science. It is the art of making men live together in peace and with reasonable happiness.

Art | Business | Government | Men | Peace | Science | Technology | Wisdom | Art |

Anatole France, pen name of Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault

Universal peace will be realized, not because man will become better, but because a new order of things, a new science, new economic necessities, will impose peace.

Better | Man | Order | Peace | Science | Will | Wisdom |

Harry Emerson Fosdick

No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it, by vigorously willing to have it. Peace is a margin of power around our daily need. Peace is a consciousness of springs too deep for earthly droughts to dry up. Peace is an awareness of reserves from beyond ourselves, so that our power is not so much in us as through us.

Awareness | Consciousness | Need | Peace | Power | Wisdom | Awareness |