"I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago."

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"I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago."

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"Peace is produced by war."

Pierre Corneille, French Dramatist

Peace, War

"World peace can be achieved only if there is nothing left to conquer."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Peace, Conquest, World, War

"We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

Peace, Fight

"Peace is peace."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Peace, Stillness, Truth, Harmony

"To achieve peace,we needed to have a war to start with."

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer

Peace, War, Conflict, Paradox

"The lust for comfort kills the passions of the soul."

Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese Philosopher

Peace, Courage, Freedom, Happiness

"At length the Lady Galadriel released them from her eyes, and she smiled. 'Do not let your hearts be troubled,' she said. 'Tonight you shall sleep in peace.' Then they sighed and felt suddenly weary, as those who have been questioned long and deeply, though no words had been spoken openly."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Peace, Rest, Heart, Sleep

"Appreciations promote inner peace."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Peace, Appreciation, Inner, Promote

"The war against the war is the only war that shall give you a great honour and a real peace!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Peace, Power, Truth, Wisdom, Inspirational

"The lake of my mind, unbroken by oars, heaves placidly and soon sinks into an oily somnolence.' That will be useful."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Peace, Mind, Calm, Silence

Explore more quotes by John Bright

"With regard to the ballot, it is worthy of remark that no meeting has been held in favour of Reform at which the ballot has not been strongly insisted upon."

Politics, Meeting, Reform

"The Government and the Parliament, even the House of Lords, will consent to a large increase of electors; and men who have not considered the subject fully will imagine they have gained much by the concession."

Government, Men, Parliament, Will

"Demand the ballot as the undeniable right of every man who is called to the poll, and take special care that the old constitutional rule and principle, by which majorities alone shall decide in Parliamentary elections, shall not be violated."

Care, Elections, Man, Old

"I hope this view of the question may be a mistaken one, because it does not seem to me very unlikely that the suffrage will be granted to women."

Woman, Women, Hope, May, Question

"I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons."

Fact, Folly, Poor, Slander

"We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years."

Agriculture, Depression, Seasons, Years

"Any Reform Bill which is worth a moment's thought, or the smallest effort to carry it, must at least double, and it ought to do much more than double, the representation of the metropolitan boroughs and of all the great cities of the United Kingdom."

Thought, Cities, Effort, Reform

"If this phrase of the 'balance of power' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure."

Peace, War, Power, Argument

"The franchise itself gives no real power, unless accompanied by the right on the part of all the possessors of it to elect something like an equal number of representatives."

Power, Right

"Possibly you are not aware of the fact that the largest sum given by any contributor to the fund is but a trifle when compared with the losses suffered by nearly all the firms in the cotton trade during the disastrous years of the American war."

War, American, Fact, Trade